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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
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!
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?
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.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
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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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.
Here you go: a management summary of the study, and more about the tests. Both in Dutch only, sorry.
The complete study can be found on the website of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, here. This one's in English; don't be fooled by the Dutch management summary that is included at the start of the document.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
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
Cell phone *sharpens* the senses? Seems just a little crazy to me.
Heating the brain a little is how it does it. Some of the body's subsystems work more efficiently when warmer than normal operating temperature (that's what a fever is: your body optimizing for fighting infection). Unfortunately, the optimal temperature is not the same for every subsystem, which is why the normal overall blood temperature is 37C. And there's no feedback between the subsystems: to fight infection, your immune system doesn't care if it damages your brain - that's why we cool the heads of people with fevers. So while one part of your brain may work better when a little warmer, there's no telling what the long term effects might be on other parts.
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.
-- Lemmy
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.