http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4203077.stm
"Professor Lawrie Challis said clipping a ferrite bead on kits stops the radio waves travelling up the wire and into the head."
So that's what those cylinders on all my cords do!
Wait wait... as in the thing that gives 1/2" of my DVI lead a bulge is the same thing that can stop me getting head cancer.. and it took them this long to figure that out?
I'd buy one.
> hands-free kits
Those are mostly for use in the car, right? Um. Making phone calls while driving doesn't seem like such a good idea in the first place. Small amounts of radiation might kill you in twenty years time (or whatever), but being distracted like that can kill you immediately.
No, hands-free kits are for blurring the distinction between businessmen and crazy homeless drunks talking to themselves on the street.
The earlier article said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4187625.stm
Hands-free kits 'cut radiation'
Radiation emissions absorbed by the head from using mobile phones are cut by using hands-free kits, a study says."
Hands-free kits are things like this:
www.phone-call-cheap.com/blue.gif
The idea is to have the electronics and the emitter away from the head. Plus one doesn't have to hold the mobile anymore, or risk to get it stolen by a passerby thief.
It'll be your liver - or whereever your pocket is - to be the one that's cooking.