Mobiles could fry your hands
THE DANGER of radiation frying your brains is a common fear. There's also the fear that carrying a mobile phone on your waist belt can zap your gonads. But the INQ's never heard of the worry that a handset can zap your hands.
Well, that's what boffins from the University of Bradford's Mobile and Satellite Communications Research Centre (MSCRC) say could happen.
They've just finished building a £800,000 ($1,590, 000) 'anechoic chamber' to investigate how mobile phones work safe in the knowledge that other forms of RF cannot get inside the chamber.
The guy in charge, Professor Raed Abd-Alhameed has said that the Centre is also currently looking at how the radiation from mobile phone handsets affects people. "The EPSRC is funding research here into the design of new antennas for mobile phone handsets to reduce 'coupling' between the hand and the handset," he declared.
"What that basically means is that we are looking at how a different sort of antenna could reduce the amount of radiation that passes into your hand when you hold a mobile phone, which not only might have health implications but also impairs the performance of the handset."
The lawyers will have a field day. Cue class action in the US from phone users saying their hands hurt.
THE DANGER of radiation frying your brains is a common fear. There's also the fear that carrying a mobile phone on your waist belt can zap your gonads. But the INQ's never heard of the worry that a handset can zap your hands.
Well, that's what boffins from the University of Bradford's Mobile and Satellite Communications Research Centre (MSCRC) say could happen.
They've just finished building a £800,000 ($1,590, 000) 'anechoic chamber' to investigate how mobile phones work safe in the knowledge that other forms of RF cannot get inside the chamber.
The guy in charge, Professor Raed Abd-Alhameed has said that the Centre is also currently looking at how the radiation from mobile phone handsets affects people. "The EPSRC is funding research here into the design of new antennas for mobile phone handsets to reduce 'coupling' between the hand and the handset," he declared.
"What that basically means is that we are looking at how a different sort of antenna could reduce the amount of radiation that passes into your hand when you hold a mobile phone, which not only might have health implications but also impairs the performance of the handset."
The lawyers will have a field day. Cue class action in the US from phone users saying their hands hurt.
