Cell Phone Radiation Emission Tests Assume Use of Belt Clip

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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Re:Taking a good point and stretching it.

[Anonymous Coward]

I am pretty sure a man invented handbags.

and used to carry them, too. The old word for a pick-pocket was a cut-purse, meaning somebody who cuts the straps on a man's purse and runs away with it. Men carried handbags. And the old word for a bag, of course, is "poke" (as in: "don't buy a pig in a poke"). When they first came up with the idea of sewing the purse right into a pair of pants, they called the result a little poke: pok-ette. Or, as we say now, pocket.