Cell safety

wondering · 11-17-2006, 06:22 PM

Does anyone think there's any weight behind the idea that talking on your cell phone can be bad for you due to the waves hitting your brain? Sounds dumb when I write it, but I've heard it a lot.

Mobile Brian · 11-22-2006, 04:49 PM

I think the issue was the close promixity to the source, but I figure as with all things, moderation is usually a safe middle path. I try and tread it.

destiny_star2006 · 11-22-2006, 06:36 PM

Good information there Mobile Brian!
Moderation is always the safest way!

kelkat · 11-26-2006, 05:18 PM

I think cell phone waves are the least of mine concerns given the basic crazyness that faces me each day. I try to stay focused on the positive and let the rest fall where it may.

I will say that I've read about it also. But I've also read that cellphone will make gas pumps explode, green house gases are causing the next ice wave or heat wave (depending on whether there is a blizzard or hurricane at that particular moment), and we are close to over populating the earth.

arppt01 · 12-27-2006, 11:31 AM

Yes I have also heard a lot about that. Whether or not it does damage I don't know but I have found some kind of dizziness when I talk for long in a mobile. I try to talk less on Mobile if I have the normal phone available at my disposal.

sweet_mayhem · 12-29-2006, 01:56 PM

this is also one of my concerns as a cellphone owner. i make it a point to leave my phone several meters away from me whenever i sleep. did you see that email about these journalists who cooked an egg using a cellphone? that was both amazing and scary.

taiarain · 12-29-2006, 03:37 PM

There's a lot that could be addressed in this thread, but I will stick to two points.

Brain damage ~ If you are concerned about brain damage, don't store your cell in your hat. Okay, maybe that's glib. If you're at all concerned, just be more careful. Keep your cell in a jacket, purse, or belt clip when you're out and don't carry it on your person at home. Use ear buds and a mic for calls when you're out. When you're home, store it in a cell docking station and use a cordless phone to make and receive your calls instead of your physical cell.

Journalists cooking eggs ~ You can pretty much discount everything you've read on the success of this concept. All verifiable sources point to it being patently false. It originated with a web site owner around 6 years ago who wrote it as satire. Many ran with it as truth and thus an urban legend was born.

Several credible attempts to recreate the experiment have failed to generate anything other than a room temperature egg. The most dramatic was from the British show Braniac, where 100 cell phones were arranged around an egg and dialed simultaneously. No change in the egg's temperature was effected.

Two Russian journalists claim to have soft boiled an egg using a mere two cell phones. However, they offer no evidence to support their claim. Given that every other attempt has failed, and they offer no scientific proof of their claim, it's hard to give it any credibility. IMO, they're just two guys who managed to get their 15 minutes by attaching their names to an urban legend.

kelkat · 12-30-2006, 04:40 AM

Well said taiarain. Not much that can be added to that, but I do have a question. Why is the cellphone dangerous and not the cordless phone?

taiarain · 12-30-2006, 02:49 PM

I don't know that cell phones are any safer than cordless phones. I threw it out there as a way of easing the minds of the nervous.

sweet_mayhem · 12-31-2006, 06:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by taiarain

There's a lot that could be addressed in this thread, but I will stick to two points.

Brain damage ~ If you are concerned about brain damage, don't store your cell in your hat. Okay, maybe that's glib. If you're at all concerned, just be more careful. Keep your cell in a jacket, purse, or belt clip when you're out and don't carry it on your person at home. Use ear buds and a mic for calls when you're out. When you're home, store it in a cell docking station and use a cordless phone to make and receive your calls instead of your physical cell.

Journalists cooking eggs ~ You can pretty much discount everything you've read on the success of this concept. All verifiable sources point to it being patently false. It originated with a web site owner around 6 years ago who wrote it as satire. Many ran with it as truth and thus an urban legend was born.

Several credible attempts to recreate the experiment have failed to generate anything other than a room temperature egg. The most dramatic was from the British show Braniac, where 100 cell phones were arranged around an egg and dialed simultaneously. No change in the egg's temperature was effected.

Two Russian journalists claim to have soft boiled an egg using a mere two cell phones. However, they offer no evidence to support their claim. Given that every other attempt has failed, and they offer no scientific proof of their claim, it's hard to give it any credibility. IMO, they're just two guys who managed to get their 15 minutes by attaching their names to an urban legend.

thank you for clearing that up, taiarain. still, one can never go wrong with being extra careful when using cellphones. luckily, i don't get to receive too many calls a week. in fact, i only get to use it for calls once a week since i'm more into sending and answering text messages.

taiarain · 12-31-2006, 03:29 PM

Ugh. I meant to say earlier that I don't know that cell phones are any less safe than cordless and didn't catch the typo on preview. Sorry.

kelkat · 01-03-2007, 04:24 AM

I got what you were saying. I was just wondering why all the hype is about the cell and not the cordless. It makes you wonder how or why these ideas get going in the first place.

taiarain · 01-03-2007, 04:26 PM

There used to be hype about cordless years ago, but people just aren't dying of brain cancer in the numbers required to continue fueling such fears. Cell phones have taken longer to become the same type of fixture in everyday life as cordless phones. I imagine that ten or fifteen years from now, people won't even think about it anymore and there will be a new technological boogeyman.

golfguru · 03-30-2007, 08:14 PM

I don't think it is that serious of a threat. The media tends to overexagerrate everything, and even they haven't brought the issue up recently. That should tell us something.

arppt01 · 03-31-2007, 04:33 AM

It seems everything depeneds on how one uses the phone. If used with some care then there might not be too much a problem.