        Without much more preparation than pulling on shirt, shoes, and pants, he hopped into his car and headed towards Best Buy.  He was halfway there when he remembered that the hair somehow interfered with radio broadcasts, so who knew what it would do to a digital device?  It fortunately had had no effect on the photos he’d taken with his digital camera, but that was a sort of after-the-fact kind of thing.  If a single hair could mess up his marine radio and cell phones, what might a creature covered with them do?  If they were defending themselves against some type of beam weapon, like a phaser, it made sense that their outfits might somehow deflect or absorb energy; maybe the electromagnetic interference was a side-effect.