Cell Phone Safety Products
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Hands Free Kits, used properly, can reduce the amount of radiation emitted by your cell phone that you absorb.
Some Antenna Radiation Shields may protect you from the radiation emitted by your cell phone, but others are ineffective.
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Hands Free Kits
If cell phones are dangerous for those that use them then this stems from the fact that ordinary cell phone use involves holding a radiation source in close proximity to your head. The further your phone is from your head, the less of the radiation that it emits you will absorb. Hands free kits allow cell phone users to use their phones at a distance from their heads, thus enabling them to reduce the amount of the radiation from their phones that they absorb.
How effective hands free kits are has yet to be established, but much will depend upon how they are used. If used correctly, hands free kits should significantly reduce the amount of radiation absorbed by cell phone users. If used incorrectly, however, then it is possible that they might even increase the risks of cell phone use.
Cell phone efficiency is reduced as a phone is moved closer to the ground or has more tissue surrounding it. Typically, those using hands free kits with their cell phones place their phones lower than they would in normal use. Typically, they also place them where there is more body tissue to interfere with the cell phone signal, again reducing the efficiency of the phone. Cell phones use adaptive power control, meaning that the less efficient the phone, the more power it will use, and so the more radiation it will emit. Typical use of a hands free kit may therefore slightly increase the amount of radiation that the phone emits.
Just as significant, though, is the concern that hands free kits simply transfer the danger away from the brain and onto other parts of the body. Most research into cell phone safety to date has investigated the danger of absorbing radiation emitted by cell phones into the brain. Other parts of the body, however, may also be sensitive to the radiation emitted by cell phones. For all the current research has to tell us, therefore, using a hands free kit and placing your cell phone in a trouser pocket, for instance, might do more harm than good.
For a hands free kit to be most effective, it must be used with the cell phone away from the body. When used in this way, hands free kits should significantly reduce the exposure to radiation involved in cell phone use.
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