I wasn't planning on writing a post this week but this really caught my eye. Nowadays everyone has a mobile phone, and we are so used to the thing that it feels kinda awkward even to leave home without it (I mean it's really hard to find a person who forgot his phone at home these days). We have all seen the email which shows, using mobile phones to cook an egg (that one is a fake by the way). But the threat of radiation is real (even though we ignore it hoping beyond hope that researchers are wrong).
Well Environmental Working Group has come up with a new online tool which displays the radiation level of your mobile phone. This was one the most visited sites of last week. And more than 1200 phone models are rated according to the radiation level. The best phone with the lowest radiation level upto now is the Samsung Impression. So visit http://www.ewg.org/cellphone-radiation and see how much of radiation you are absorbing.
Just think about it, won't we be the first generation to experience cell phone related diseases. Although the cigarette\tobacco industry thrived till the 1970s the no. of new users is coming down drastically so much so that they have gone on to produce low tobacco cigarettes (lol). Who knows in a couple of decades the cell phone might meet the same fate. But there is still hope I guess since the mobile is way more useful than the cigarette (I mean come on most people started on the cigarette coz they wanted to look cool or grown-up) and coz way more people worry about their health than back then.
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