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Levi's To Sell 'anti-radiation' Trousers For Mobile Users
News Clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss is gearing up to launch a pair of trousers with an "anti-radiation" mobile phone pocket, prompted by customer concern over possible health dangers caused by mobile phone use.
[September 12, 2002, 15:07]
Hands-free: Over Three Times The Radiation
News The amount of radiation emitted by a mobile phone can be increased up to three and a half times when using a hands-free kit according to a report released by the Consumers' Association, Thursday. A statement from the Consumers' Association says...
[November 2, 2000, 9:34]
Report: Hands-free Mobiles Triple Radiation Risk
News The amount of radiation emitted by a mobile phone may be increased up to three and a half times when used with a hands-free kit, according to a study released by the Consumers' Association Thursday. A statement from the Consumers' Association says...
[November 2, 2000, 13:43]
Hands-free Mobiles 'increase Normal Radiation'
News Hands-free mobile equipment may actually increase the amount of radiation a user is exposed to by as much as three hundred percent, a Consumers Association (CA) report found Tuesday. Although there is no clear-cut evidence that the non-ionising...
[April 4, 2000, 16:02]
World-first Test Of Mobile Phone Radiation Begins
News The hospital's Centre for Immunology will simulate mobile phone radiation and test its long-term, intermittent impact on human brain cells. French pointed out that previous research has only tested short-term exposure to electromagnetic radiation...
[January 10, 2002, 9:42]
My Mobile Radiation Health Fear: Apoplexy
Blog Other problems he quoted as being linked to mobile phone radiation were disrupted sleep, male fertility, DNA breakage - in all, some forty effects. Exradia is a London-based company at MWC, and I´ve just come out of its press briefing.
[February 13, 2008, 13:03]
News Burst: Intel, NASA Work On Radiation-proof Chip
News Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) has teamed up with the U.S.government to develop a processor that can withstand radiation, the Associated Press reported. The chip could help shield satellites from nuclear blasts in space.
[December 7, 1998, 10:12]
Government Silent On Wi-Fi Radiation Claims
News He said that the threat should be seriously examined and that another inquiry should be carried out like the Stewart report into mobile phone radiation. Most comments on the blog dismissed the concerns as overly dramatic, although one reader...
[November 29, 2006, 13:03]
Human Capital Crisis In Radiation Safety
White Papers The Health Physics Society (HPS) recommends significant financial support by the Congress and federal agencies for health physics programs in academic institutions to support faculty, students, and research associated with these programs and thus...
[July 14, 2005, 0:00]
My Mobile Radiation Health Fear: Apoplexy
Blog Comment I'm surprised they could bear to come into such a hot-bed of radiation as MWC in the first place - surely if they actually believed what they say, they would have got a huge does of gonad damage just stepping on site.
[February 13, 2008, 14:47]
Why Mobile Radiation Protection May Make Sense
Blog Guy Kewney, who has been covering this technology lark since around the time I was born, has an interesting take on a new device that is claimed to protect against mobile phone radiation. The company behind this magical device, Exradia, held a...
[February 15, 2007, 17:05]
Time To Settle Radiation Nerves?
Blog Concerns have been rife recently, topped by calls by Ian Gibson - an MP and a cancer specialist - for an inquiry by the Department of Health into WiFi radiation, in the manner of the Stewart Report. The findings of a hefty Danish survey has...
[December 7, 2006, 16:58]
My Mobile Radiation Health Fear: Apoplexy
Blog Comment Excellent article. Your final question (and answer) says it all, doesn't it? The PR man doesn't use it himself.sigh. I have an alternate solution, which is guaranteed to help just as much. I learned it many years ago, watching NYPD Blue.
[February 13, 2008, 15:59]
My Mobile Radiation Health Fear: Apoplexy
Blog Comment How can a few milliwatts of magnetic noise counteract a watt or so of radio frequency electromagnetic radiation? They said that the battery life wasn't affected by a noticable amount, but there were no numbers.
[February 13, 2008, 16:46]
Time To Settle Radiation Nerves?
Blog Comment From what I can see, the media hype over this study was outrageous. The study itself appears to be a bit of a sham, though not through any incompetence or maliciously, merely unavailability of the data.
[December 13, 2006, 9:03]
Two-piece Mobile Phone Cuts Radiation
News The issue of radiation may not be compelling enough for this device to take off," said IDC Asia-Pacific analyst Gary Hong. A Hong Kong-based company is planning to release a mobile phone that could put radio frequency farther from the user.
[May 16, 2002, 9:41]
Mobile Phone Manufacturers Work On Cancer Shields
News The big three mobile phone makers have been working on technology for over eight years to limit the amount of radiation a user is exposed to. According to a report in Monday's edition of The Times, Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson have each registered...
[June 11, 2001, 9:41]
Terahertz Camera Takes Snapshot Of The Future
News Terahertz radiation lies on the boundary between radio and light waves and is far more difficult to detect and analyse than either, but is of huge interest for medical, security, environmental and communication uses; the technology could, for...
[February 11, 2003, 13:35]
Health Experts Play Down VDU Scare
News A study published by researchers at Reading University Wednesday suggests that radiation from computer monitors may be responsible for a variety of maladies among office workers including headaches, flu-like symptoms and muscular pain.
[July 15, 1999, 10:10]
Government U-turn On Mobiles
News Hands free kits for mobile phones may not offer users any protection against radiation according to the latest government information which contradicts a statement on their use earlier this year. As part of a £7m research programme into the health...
[December 8, 2000, 17:32]
