Here is my set up. I have an AirPort Extreme base station three feet away. I have my trusty iBook with AirPort and Bluetooth near me all the time. I have two mobile phones, one of which has Bluetooth. The phone is connected to my iBook for the cool stuff that you can do with Address Book. I also have a wireless Bluetooth headset. All this is concerning me. Should I be?
What do you guys think? I read about SAR which is something about rf absorption rate.
Now, on top of all this, I really want to get Bluetooth wireless mouse and keyboard.
Anyone else out there concerned? Will I get brain cancer?
Just like the last time you filled your car with gas when your cell phone rang unexpectedly and blew up the service station.
It will probably be the same type of cancer we all have from using our cell phones and microwave ovens for the past 20 years.
Not to mention all those nasty AM - FM signals around you from all those radio stations you listen to in the car.
And two way radio signals too. Don't forget about all those cops, ambulances and firemen out there talking on their radios and filling your head with cancer.
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You will probably get brain cancer. The radio waves will tear tiny holes in your soft tissues like a fine mist of battery acid until your skin liquifies and drips off your skeleton. It's a truly horrifying experience and I wish Apple would at least mention it on their website, as I believe the consumer has a right to know. Bad Apple.
Don't worry, if the bluetooth doesn't get you, the sun will!
There is no way you will be able to stop everything around you from causing you to get cancer. Cancer is a normal event that occurs regardless of whether you are living under high voltage power lines or not. Such interferance most likely increases the chance, but your immune system is killing off cancerous cells as we speak. Cells mutate, wear out, or just simply malfunction, and it is up to our immune system to weed them out. Personally I'm more interested in how to improve my immune system then to figure out ways to live in a bunker of lead to stop the radiation around me just to find out, living in such a place is also very bad for my health.
Personally, I'm content knowing that the radio waves aren't the healthiest things out there, but getting rid of them isn't going to stop me from dying, and there is no direct evidence that such radio waves will shorten my life. There are just too many factors.
It's actually a very serious matter which companies avoid talking about because it affects their bottom line.
I suggest you do as much research as you can from reliable sources and then make the decision for yourself.
From what I have read, heard, and researched, it has made me be a little bit more aware of how I use my technology (ie. turn off airport when not in use, use a headset for my cellphone, no bluetooth devices etc)
You guys are so funny. Mea culpa. Dumb question I guess or maybe I watched too much X Files...
But as Pamela brought up, the mobile phone companies apparently fought very hard to not disclose that information and are only doing so now because they are ordered by the FCC. (CRTC is useless.)
Now even my new phone comes with a SAR rating. Apparently my Sony Ericsson is 1.1 or something where 1.6 is considered hazardous by the FCC. My other option would have been a Siemens Bluetooth phone that only has a rating of 0.6 which they actually use as one of advertising tools. (Too bad the phone didn't have an integrated camera. Oh vanity thy name is Sander...)
Cool. I am glad I got to discuss this though. Great point Chealion: "Personally I'm more interested in how to improve my immune system then to figure out ways to live in a bunker of lead to stop the radiation around me (...)"
This also means I am getting the Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse so I am happy.
You are far more likely to see some type of ill effects from a ell phone than anything else as it is probably the only device that you keep close to your head for any extended periods of time. Airport & Airport Extreme operate in the same frequency band as a lot of cordless phones (2.4 Ghz), and bluetooth uses a less powerful transmitter than either.
Basically, unless you walk around with an active bluetooth transmitter/Airport Base Station duct taped to your head, I don't think you are going to get cancer any time soon, and even then it would take quite a while.
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PB, one would be more likely to die of the loss of blood to the brain due to the duct tape, or die of DTP (duct tape poisoning, which is clearly stated on the label "Duct tape is NOT to be ingested or placed in direct contact with the skin for extended periods of time").
Personally, I would be more fearful of living near a power transmitter outside of ones bedroom. We have a house here in St.John's that is within a few meters of a power transmition sub station. The house is nearly worthless, but the people continue to live in this house, due to yearly property taxes that would not even be enough for a .Mac subscription.
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Basically, unless you walk around with an active bluetooth transmitter/Airport Base Station duct taped to your head, I don't think you are going to get cancer any time soon, and even then it would take quite a while.
Hmmm. How long would it take, though? I say we tape a base station to your head (I'll be in the control group, of course) and see how long it takes. We could even do an article for Geek Patrol with our results.
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