Last week our Vollebak Spaceshop landed in London for 72 hours, and it was a suitably intergalactic affair. The shop launched with a live science experiment on the Thursday night that looked very much like the opening scene of a Black Mirror episode. 500-ish people, mostly dressed in black, turned up to a raw concrete tower in London to witness a Sonic Jacket fire frequencies through a human being just to see what happened… and the human was me. London has a long track record of this kind of stuff – from live hospital operations in front of paying audiences a few hundred years ago, to Michael Faraday standing in the first Faraday Cage and turning science into spectacle. And the experiment didn’t disappoint. Putting my twin brother in charge of which frequencies he fired through me was probably a bad idea, given we spent the first 18 years of our lives fighting. While he had promised a mixture of frequency sweet spots, which he’d described as “walking barefoot on Earth,” and “like the sun trying to be in my body,” he decided to use something a little closer to torture on me… but at least there was no blood. And you can see what the design press said here. Adding to the spectacle on the night, we were joined by the Vollebak Spaceshop – our prototype interstellar delivery vehicle built with SAGA Space Architects and giant space-burned speakers from Bang & Olufsen. In the windows and on the walls was giant alien artwork (which will go on sale later this week) by Henrik Delehag, who has a secret side project to overthrow the Gregorian calendar. The lighting and soundscape built by two of the creative forces behind the immersive theatre world of Punchdrunk – Ben Donoghue and Stephen Dobbie. And guests also got to meet one of our first Vollebak future humans – an avid collector and possible time-travel criminal. As for the Spaceshop, we sold a lot of advanced clothing – for Earth and beyond. Winners were the Mach 16 Jacket built with the hypersonic space parachute that landed the first probe on Titan a billion miles from Earth, the Full Metal Jacket, the Sashiko Chore Jacket and the Graphene T Shirt, all of which you’ll find here.