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The Incredible Shrinking Antenna
pinkUZI writes "NYTimes ran an article yesterday about a new material, created by a general manager at Integral Technologies, that would enable use of the plastic mold of a cell phone as its Antenna. Pretty neat, as it actually increases the size of the antenna while decreasing the footprint."
No extruding antennas on my Nokia phone. Nokia has given up the antennas altogether, I think. Communicators still have them, but I doubt if any of the other new phones have.
I read somewhere that the reason why eg. Ericsson still carries a big extruding antenna is that people expect a mobile phone to have an antenna. In other words, if you had an antennaless phone and one with an antenna, the antennaless phone was perceived to have poor reception or something even though it wasn't so at hardware level measurements.
that could prevent the increase of radiation on cell phones? A major problem with them.
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Ok, who believes it was really the general manager who came up with this thing?
"Actually, I enjoyed this in the same vague, horrible way I enjoyed the A-Team" P. Opus
So now ill be able to have teh effect of holding a brick of plutionum next to my head with a cell phone
YUMMY, CANCER!
"All I can tell the "lesser of two evils" folks is that if they keep voting for evil, they'll keep getting evil."-Lp.org
Gee... 2.4ghz right in the palm of your hand and
contact with the ear and skull. Someone should
do a health study on this. I treat a cell phone
like fire. And my antennea is as far as it can go away from my head. And I tested it with a meter to see where the safe zone was.