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3G Waves Causes Headaches, Sharpens Memory
jonknee writes "MobileTracker noted that an interesting study on 3G cellular networks has been released out of Amsterdam. The findings were that exposure to 3G waves can cause headaches and nausea (conventional cellular service doesn't have these effects). It also found that those same subjects had better memory and reaction times (conventional cellular networks have the same effect)!"
Next time I have to take a test, I'll carry an old motorola briefcase phone with me and Make sure it is sending and recieving.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
could be the bodies reaction to brain damage.
love is just extroverted narcissism
It also found that those same subjects had better memory and reaction times
Screw studying for that test, I'm going to talk to my friends on my cell phone all night!
Here's the same story on yahoo.
The article says that no scientific evidence exists for a link between 2G signals and brain tumours. But, what about 3G signals? If they can cause headache and nausea, I think you can reasonably expect it to have other effects such as malignant tumours. It's time to take a step back and study 3G more before massive deployment. There is no pressing need to surf porn or whatever faster on your cellphone.
It also found that those same subjects had better memory and reaction times (conventional cellular networks have the same effect)!"
Now if I could only remember I left my cell phone...
Trolling is a art,
It looks like the idea that using a cell phone is detrimental to driving performance is faulty. Since Reaction times are dramatically improved, I expect that within a few years you will be required to use a cell phone while driving.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
bollocks, it's all those bloody tourists getting high.
Han-Wen Nienhuys -- LilyPond
GENIUS!
btw is that jealousy I sense?
Ummm... the link's to a Wired article that doesn't say any more about the study than the Slashdot story does. Is the actual study available anywhere?
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Obviously the writer of this article has never dealt with Verizon (or many other telecomm companies).
"Windows are for cheaters" - Bruce Springsteen
Is yet another symptom of "3g" the munchies?
Welcome our Cellular Network Enhanced Overlords.
*ahem*
On a serious note, were the results of this study
pusblished in any credible medical journal?
Cell phone *sharpens* the senses? Seems just a little crazy to me.
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Hmmm, that's interesting, one would thing the residual IRQ going over the PCI would cancel out the WTF that allows people to RTFM, that being the primary cause of people wondering what the heck others just said.
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http://www.tno.nl/nieuws/archief/documenten/tno_fe l_report_03148mu.pdf
TNO is the Dutch equivalent of the German TUV if I'm not mistaken. A very respected institute in the Netherlands
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It has nothing to do with 2G over 3G as a technology in itself. It has to do with power levels and high frequencies. Meanining a 2400bps chanell at 30Ghz and an EIRP of 60dbw will mess you up pretty bad while an 11Mbps 802.11 17dbm at 2.4Mhz would not hurt you.
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Sounds like the movie Phenomenon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117333/) to me... great powers and whatnot, but then you only get laid once and die of a brain tumor... no thanks.
Let's see...
The study, the first of its kind, tested the impact of radiation from base stations used for the current mobile telephone network...
That's exactly what I do everyday...I hang around cell phone towers everyday to sharpen my memory and response times!
Riiiigghht
Why is the higher bandwidth needed for voice communication, which is when you are holding the device to the side of your head? Shouldn't the phone be smart enough to fall back on some slower connectivity for voice, and only use the higher speed network for data access? At least you aren't holding the thing next to your brain when you are surfing the web or using it for PDA / laptop connectivity, which is when the bandwidth is needed.
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
You all laughed at me and my tinfoil beanie, but who's laughing now? Eh? Eh?
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
It also sharpens my memory... I remember why I broke up with them!
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
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However, cognitive functions such as memory and response times were boosted by both 3G signals and the current ones, the study found.
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Well fair enough then. That might be true, but I do wonder how and why they decided to test that.
"Nausea, headaches, loss of appetite
Abandonment of self-awareness and general consideration in public places
Ability to memorise deck of cards
Limb mutation
I'm getting a nice tan and I know the theories behind it! Wow - did you guys know that you can look at the sun and get the same effect? I have also discovered that my reaction time to getting modded down has been reduced to mere minutes!
This is truly a golden age, and not some wireless corporation's self-serving sponsored study. Say that 10 times fast - I can!
I can fly too - you guys gotta try this!!
Great - they're at it again. There is absolutely no proven link between the minute RF field radiated by a handset and health problems. Basically there is too little energy for measurable tissue heating, the electromagnetic field is too weak to induce currents in the brain proper.
.1 to 100 milliwatts for the hand-held PCS units. That's barely enough to dimly light a flashlight bulb.
What everyone seems to forget is the fact we live in an ocean of pretty powerful RF energy that ranges from VLF (very low frequency) up to the microwave region (SHF). Every time you turn on an appliance you are exposing yourself to magnetic and RF fields magnitudes greater than that of a cell phone handset. Drive past a broadcast station and you're exposed to a field density measured in volts per meter, not millivolts. To put it perspective, your common FM broadcast station operates between 5 and 100 kilowatts ERP (effective radiated power). A television transmitter can operate up to 2-4 Megawatts of ERP. Where is the uproar over that?
Your common cellphone operates at a modest 3 watts (for car-mounted 800 mhz units) to a puny
Remember these facts: You live in an ocean of electromagnetic energy. A bolt of lightning radiates tremendous RF energy. Mother earth gives off VLF emissions herself. The sun bathes you in RF in the microwave region. And have you cleaned those gaskets around the door of your microwave oven? It operates at 800 to 1000 watts of power at 2.4 GHz. All it takes is a grungy gasket or a bent door and your taking on watts of very effective heating.
I am the holder of a First Class FCC license, an Extra Class amateur license, and have worked with broadcast, land mobile, fixed service, radar, and amateur radio for decades. I have never experienced, nor have I ever encountered anyone who has experienced a health related problems for working in a high RF field. People are more likely to be injured from high voltage, burns, and mechanical means.
Please stop trying to get funding by spreading this faux academic nonsense. Quit manipulating data to make yourselves look right and then run out and cry the sky is falling. We're all tired of this and have heard quite enough.
Long-term systemic effects of this activity are unkown- It could be trivial, or the situation could be an analogue to the introduction of DDT in the previous century, when the substance was considered safe and effective- Measured evidence to the contrary wasn't presented for many years, and then in the face of great controversy.
The bottom line is that anyone who makes a definitive stand one way or another is a fool.
Base stations can be dangerous things, but the received radiation diminishes very rapidly with distance (inverse square law). That's why it's critical to know just how far away the people were from the base stations, and the news reports don't say this.
If you hold your head directly in front of a microwave transmitter (even a 2G one), you're going to experience some bad effects. If you stand at the bottom of a hill and the transmitter is on top, you should be okay.
If only this were true!
There is a mountain of science which has recognized the following. .
Here's an article with some photos of slices of brain tissue taken from rats exposed to cell phone EM. The effects are real.
-FL