Cell Phone Case Reduces Radiation by 60%
Pong Research said today at CES that its latest cell phone protective case is now available for the Blackberry Curve smartphone, fitting the 6300, 8310, 8320, and 8330 models. The new case joins Pong Research's current offerings for the iPhone 3G and 3GS. The case doesn't come cheap--it will cost Curve owners a whopping $59.95 USD.
Is it worth the hefty price? Perhaps. What makes this case so unique is its claims to reduce the user's exposure to cell phone radiation up to 60-percent. The claim is also backed and verified by FCC-certified laboratories (Cetecom), making it a possible--if not plausible--investment. Specifically, the case should reduce the Specific Absorption Rate by 60-percent, and the Electric Field Intensity by 85-percent.
"I am convinced that the best way to prevent health hazards stemming from cell phone radiation is to redirect this energy from the user," said Dr. Alfred Wong, chief scientist of Pong Research, professor emeritus of physics at University of California Los Angeles in today's press release. "These phone cases exemplify many years of research into precise antenna structure in order to couple with the energy from the phone’s internal antenna."
Pong Research said that the basis behind the technology is to channel the radiation away from the end user by employing principles of antenna theory and physics. However, according to the company, the actual signal strength isn't disrupted, allowing the phone to function normally and preserve the battery's lifespan. To learn more about the science, check out the "How It works" demonstration here.
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Put it inside a Faraday Cage and you won't have to worry about making calls either.
I love my brain way more than i love talking to ppl. I'll stick with my 100% elimination of cellphone radiation by simply not carrying one around with me. Plus I don't have to spend $50 on crap like this, or hundreds on a phone, and hundreds more on the contracts/bills.
I think it's that damn logical part of my brain that wont let me become one of the cellphone/iphone fad-aholics... I guess maybe it just hasnt been exposed to enough harmful radiation to get me to the point where I would put socializing and communicating before good health and longevity.
I think it's that damn logical part of my brain that wont let me become one of the cellphone/iphone fad-aholics... I guess maybe it just hasnt been exposed to enough harmful radiation to get me to the point where I would put socializing and communicating before good health and longevity.
I see the logical part of your brain isn't very helpful in determining that the whole cellphone health hazard issue isn't proven in any way, shape, or form.
I love my brain way more than i love talking to ppl. I'll stick with my 100% elimination of cellphone radiation by simply not carrying one around with me. Plus I don't have to spend $50 on crap like this, or hundreds on a phone, and hundreds more on the contracts/bills.I think it's that damn logical part of my brain that wont let me become one of the cellphone/iphone fad-aholics... I guess maybe it just hasnt been exposed to enough harmful radiation to get me to the point where I would put socializing and communicating before good health and longevity.
Not carrying a cellphone around u is not a solution imo. What if there's an emergency situation? What're u going to do? shout? Find the nearest payphone? I always carry my cellphone around, but minimise the time of my usage.
I love my brain way more than i love talking to ppl. I'll stick with my 100% elimination of cellphone radiation by simply not carrying one around with me. Plus I don't have to spend $50 on crap like this, or hundreds on a phone, and hundreds more on the contracts/bills.I think it's that damn logical part of my brain that wont let me become one of the cellphone/iphone fad-aholics... I guess maybe it just hasnt been exposed to enough harmful radiation to get me to the point where I would put socializing and communicating before good health and longevity.
You could also use a blue-tooth device or speaker phone. That would save you from the radiation and your irrational extremism.
what about everyone else around you? if you live in a busy city won't other people's cell phones affect you considering they have to be powerful enough to reach the tower.
not worth it imo. all this "brain cancer" and "deadly radiation" stuff is BS. plus, what does it do for your cell phone signal, i think you are gonna have quite a few missing bars if you but this thing on.
Dipole are extremely hazardous to health and I am sure it's only a question of time before we see the effects.
You could also use a blue-tooth device or speaker phone. That would save you from the radiation and your irrational extremism.
Um, this is a joke, right? Getting rid of wireless radiation by getting a new wireless device? And, imo, he's not going to hurt you by not carrying a cell phone any more than you hurt him by carrying one, if you subscribe to the pragmatic theory of good. About the product, very cool technology. I wonder if you could engineer it to provide gain?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8443541.stm
Who cares is I don't haver a signal anymore. At least I won't have cancer.
Who cares is I don't haver a signal anymore. At least I won't have cancer.
i can maybe see where this case will reduce radiation coming from the back of the phone where it is completely covered by the case but how is it going to do anything for the front of the case that has barely 5-10% covered by this miracle case. who cares about whats coming out of the back when the front is pressed to your face...........
$60?!?!?!?!?!Wow, there is a lot of money to be made out there selling FUD!
THere is.
Here is the final answer to all this stuff... in twenty years if we see a bunch of brain tumor removal stories on the news then we know it's probably true (but too late lol) but if that doesn't happen then it's all good:-) BTW using an ear piece doesn't help because the phone is still close to some other area of the body so your just exposing something else to radiation. You can't expect this cell phone cosy to work, it's just a gimmick. What needs to happen is some other technology needs to be developed that uses some other kind of frequency that is lower power and still digital and perhaps larger numbers of smaller towers instead of these big ol radio station towers. Smaller towers more evenly distributed will work a lot better and they can be cheap and still work.
"I see the logical part of your brain isn't very helpful in determining that the whole cellphone health hazard issue isn't proven in any way, shape, or form."
The reason for that is simple, there's not enough data to build a statistical model from. Cellphones have not been in extensive use for a very long time and it could very well be 20-30 years before we get the first significant studies.
Generally speaking, better the poison you know...
Take foodstuffs for example, the FUD being spread regarding fat and sugar have created products full of artificial additives to (partially) replace such content but there's going to be a long time until we know the health impact of those.
Same thing applies here.
I'm 33 now, when I were in my teens there weren't any cellphones around and even today I generally don't carry my phone with me. Not so much out of fear of radiation though, more because I have no real need of communicating every single moment of my life.
It may come as a shock but the world at large did just fine without cellphones until the mid-90s. People simply made plans and stuck to them.
Alright. This is ridiculous. First off, I am a physicist and I cannot believe that this is still being discussed/believed. Cell phones cannot cause cancer. Period. The frequency of the electromagnetic waves (which determines its energy) is not great enough to break the chemical bonds in DNA in any way shape or form. That professor in the article is just saying the bull because he will be getting a cut from every accessory sold. Don't waste your money on this. Please.
You'd only need this if you use the phone 23/7. Yes, 23/7.
$60. Come on. It's probably costing them $5 each to produce.
Let's pretend for a minute that this product actually does what it says it does. That would mean that it takes the omni-directional RF wave from your phone and makes it directional. The end result; turn your head in the wrong direction and you will drop the call. Face the wrong direction, miss the call.
This product has "sucker" written all over it.
Alright. This is ridiculous. First off, I am a physicist and I cannot believe that this is still being discussed/believed. Cell phones cannot cause cancer. Period. The frequency of the electromagnetic waves (which determines its energy) is not great enough to break the chemical bonds in DNA in any way shape or form. That professor in the article is just saying the bull because he will be getting a cut from every accessory sold. Don't waste your money on this. Please.
+1 good sir.
It's non-Ionizing radiation, at worst it'll warm you up a little bit as microwaves can excite polar molecules and since the brain has a ton of blood flowing through it, any minor gains in thermal energy are quickly displaced. Also, cell phones have been around since '79 and we've yet to see any statistical proof of increased cancer:
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi [...] 98/23/1707
Dipole are extremely hazardous to health and I am sure it's only a question of time before we see the effects.
You better watch out for dihydrogen oxide. It's a dipole and it's over 50% of your body mass.
You better watch out for dihydrogen oxide. It's a dipole and it's over 50% of your body mass.
It's also been found in every malignant tumor.
I don't know how this would work. The face is completly opened. So when it's in your pocket, facing one way it protects you up to 60%, but if you turn it around, you don't get the protection. Same as when you're talking on it, you're not protected... hmm
The article on cell phone radiation is very information. The newer smartphones that talk to the web
all the time are actually HIGH in cell phone EMF radation. All the tests we did on blockers, since we
have two very young childern and they are most vulnerable, showed that the Waveshield blocker
did the best overall and for our IPHONES. Here is a link to their site http://bit.ly/RadiationBlocker
The cell phone cases here sound really amazing.Peaple don't need to worry about the radiation any more when using a cell phone.However,sometimes peaple are disturbed by the spam calls,in this case,a cell phone jammer is also needed by people.