[LINK] Our wireless world...

[Kim Holburn]

On 2006/Nov/30, at 2:02 PM, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> On 30/11/2006, at 1:03 PM, Stewart Fist wrote:
>> There's also a cellphone radiation barrier that you stick on your  
>> handset,
>> and a number of different antenna shields.  This is a billion dollar
>> industry.
>
> I've heard about these, but never actually seen one in use. Are  
> they easy to see on a mobile phone, or does one have to look for  
> the vacant stare of a gullible radiation-addled mobile phone user  
> to spot them?

If they really worked then your phone would just have to boost it's  
transmitting power which is the opposite of what you want to happen,  
really it is.  I reckon bluetooth earpieces are the go - you still  
have a transmitter on your head but it's a much lower power transmitter.

> If it's a billion dollar industry, I'd like to know how vendors can  
> claim that the devices/patches/barriers/condoms/tinfoil sheets  
> actually work, and then sell them without fear of the ACCC, or any  
> consumer body that is prepared to act.
>
> The crystals sound interesting...

> The one I like the most though, is those extension cable mike/ 
> earpieces,
> which allow you to move the transmitter away from your head, and  
> cradle it
> in your crutch while you are driving.   How many Linkers of  
> reproductive age
> use these ?

Is that why phones have vibrating alerts?

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