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There is an uncontrollable profit-driven race to come up with 'smaller and better' in personal communications technology. This may result in products that are not always safe. Case in point lately is the exploding Samsung cell phones. The following article warns us about another item that should give us concern.
- The new iPhone 7 airpods are wireless, Bluetooth, and radioactive.
- Dr Joel Moskowitz, a professor at the UC Berekely School of Public Health, said people would be ‘putting a microwave-emitting device next to your brain’.
- Apple’s engineers argue that the frequencies are well within the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) guidelines.
- Dr Moskowitz said more than 200 scientists who study electromagnetic radiation safety believe that the FCC guidelines are inadequate to protect human health.
- Animal studies have found that exposure to very low intensity microwave radiation can open the blood-brain barrier enabling chemical toxins in the circulatory system to penetrate brain tissue.
- The findings are nothing new, Dr Moskowitz explains. 'This has been observed over several decades. It's like we keep rediscovering that Bluetooth is harmful and trying to forget it because we don't know how to handle it from a policy standpoint."
iPhone 7 Wireless and Bluetooth headphones by Apple.
Microwaving your brain.
Microwaving your brain.
It is one of the features of the new phone which has sparked conversation, with many excited about the prospect of never having to untangle the wires and others worried how easily they could lose the gadgets.
The new headphones are powered by Bluetooth - a wireless technology for exchanging data over short distances.
An expert has warned the small white devices, which also have the added bonus of being water resistant, could in fact be damaging to health.
This isn’t just because we all tend to crank the volume up - which can gradually lead to a loss of hearing.
It’s because the headphones are transmitting very low intensity radiowaves into your ears.
Dr Joel Moskowitz, a professor at the UC Berekely School of Public Health, said people would be ‘putting a microwave-emitting device next to your brain’.
While it has not been revealed exactly what the frequency of the AirPod Bluetooth waves are, Apple’s engineers argue that they are well within the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) guidelines.
Dr Moskowitz said more than 200 scientists who study electromagnetic radiation safety believe that the FCC guidelines are inadequate to protect human health.
The expert questioned: “Although we don’t know the long-term risks from using Bluetooth devices, why would anyone insert microwave-emitting devices in their ears near their brain when there are safer ways to use a cell phone. Is the legal limit sufficient to protect the cell phone user’s health?”
He said he recommended the use of ‘corded headsets or hands-free use of cell phones, not wireless ear buds’.
Dr Moskowitz argued there have been more than a dozen studies using animal models have found that exposure to very low intensity microwave radiation can open the blood-brain barrier which could enable chemical toxins in the circulatory system to penetrate brain tissue.
He said: “This effect is nonlinear as it is found with very low intensity exposure but not at higher intensity exposures to microwave radiation.”
The findings are nothing new, Dr Moskowitz explains. 'This has been observed over several decades. It's like we keep rediscovering that Bluetooth is harmful and trying to forget it because we don't know how to handle it from a policy standpoint.
The findings are nothing new, Dr Moskowitz explains. 'This has been observed over several decades. It's like we keep rediscovering that Bluetooth is harmful and trying to forget it because we don't know how to handle it from a policy standpoint.
'Although we don’t know the long-term risks from using Bluetooth devices, why would anyone insert microwave-emitting devices in their ears near their brain when there are safer ways to use a cell phone? Essentially I recommend using corded headsets or hands-free use of cell phones, not wireless ear buds.'
Users can connect their AirPods to their Apple device by just opening up the AirPods case and tapping ‘connect’.
An Apple spokesperson said: “Apple products are always designed and tested to meet or exceed all safety requirements.”
Sources
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/709734/iPhone-7-apple-airpods-harm-health-radiowaves-brainhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3779271/iPhone-7-better-come-headphones-app-Apple-faces-backlash-removing-traditional-socket-launching-159-AirPods.html
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