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Cell Phone Radiation Emission Tests Assume Use of Belt Clip

Posted by timothy on from the like-everyone-uses dept.

jfruh writes: Most Slashdotters rightfully roll their eyes when people panic about the "radiation" put out by cell phone. But there is a germ of truth to some of the nervous talk: when the FCC assesses how much radio-frequency radiation a phone user will absorb, they work on the assumption you'll be wearing it in a belt clip, rather than putting it in your pocket as most people do. With the size of some recent phones, I think assuming use of a backpack might be just as realistic.

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  1. Re: Taking a good point and stretching it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    That was an example of taking a good point and stretching it... Even the biggest 'smart' phones are pocket phones.

    I'm a nudist you insensitive clod.

  2. Re: Taking a good point and stretching it. by Travis+Mansbridge · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just use nature's pocket!

  3. Million dollar idea... by funwithBSD · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jeans and Khaki's that have the inside of the pocket lined with EMF blocking material. Just next to the skin, or it would block the phone from working.

    Make a "pocket protector" version to use with any standard pair of pants.

    it will never work... perfect for kickstarter.

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    1. Re:Million dollar idea... by Nidi62 · · Score: 1, Funny

      With the latest trend of workout clothes sewn with copper thread to supposedly help with pain or circulation of something (and let's not forget those magical magnetic wristbands that do everything from stopping arthritis pain to curing cancer), you could easily sell a pair of pants with a pocket lined with copper fibers that would "block harmful radiation". Of course, it would possibly also block reception, but whatever.

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    2. Re:Million dollar idea... by TheCarp · · Score: 4, Funny

      Block both sides and it prevents annoying calls, and provides privacy at the airport.

      Though for the latter I always just wanted to get the little lead letters they used to use for marking x-rays and sew messages like "private area" or "get a real job" into my pants.

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  4. Re:Does not really matter. by flopsquad · · Score: 4, Funny

    A belt clip is closer to your genitals than the inside of a front pocket?

    I use the iCodpiece, you insensitive clod!

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  5. Re:Taking a good point and stretching it. by nospam007 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "That was an example of taking a good point and stretching it..."

    Wouldn't that be a line?

  6. Re:Taking a good point and stretching it. by nospam007 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Have you seen women's pants lately?"

    Only the inside.

    But seriously, 'lately'?

    Have you ever checked women's skirts, robes, dresses for the last couple of hundred years for pockets?

    That's why they invented handbags. If you ever checked a woman's purse, those wouldn't fit in any imaginable pocket anyway.

  7. I keep mine ... by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... in my fanny pack. So it can keep my "gun" warm.

    And by "gun" I mean gun.

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