Posted on 03/11/2019 2:21:26 PM PDT by dennisw
Cancer from wireless tech including the trendy in-ear headphones In 2018, Apple sold 29 million pairs of AirPods The tiny wireless Bluetooth headphones fit into the ear canal
The close proximity of AirPods to the brain and inner ear may raise cancer risks
Apple's popular wireless AirPods headphones may pose cancer risks to wearers, according to a United Nations and World Health Organization petition.
Some 250 have signed the petition, which warns against numerous devices that emit radiofrequency radiation, which is used in WiFi, cellular data and Bluetooth.
AirPods in particular are concerning because they sit deeply enough within the ear canal to emit expose these fragile parts of the ear to dangerous among of radiation, some experts warn.
The scientific jury is still out on the whether or not the particular devices an cause cancer, but animal studies on the kind of radiofrequency radiation that they emit has suggested a link to cancer.
Radiowaves from Bluetooth AirPods may be carcinogenic, a group of 250 international scientists warned in a petition against minimally regulated wireless technology
And, in some cases, the levels of radiation found to be carcinogenic were significantly lower than the maximum allowed by federal and international guidelines.
Last year, Apple sold 28 million pairs of its tiny, white wireless earbuds. The year before, they sold 16 million pairs. With a new design reportedly on the way, the technology company is set to profit even more on sound.
But the devices could be pumping more than beats into wearers' heads.
The AirPods wirelessly connect with a phone via Bluetooth, the popular short distance radio communication technology.
Essentially, anything that communicates wirelessly using electromagnetic energy
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are you old.
Probably not a big deal
a lot of these issues are time sensitive
I had no idea that airpods have built in microphones. I figured they were for listening to music.
Life will kill you.
I have been wearing hearing aids that can communicate wirelessly, and receive bluetooth for almost 30 years, when an I supposed to die?
I’d gladly send you some of my deer. We are overrun. Our yard is a deer trail from the forest to the nearby golf course. I frequently count 20 just hanging around the front yard and the neighbors’ yards or on their way to the golf course. They eat everything in the spring time and it’s impossible to have flowers. There’s still a foot of snow on the ground and they are moving slowly now because there is so little to eat in winter.
invite hunters in.
In the north country I know hunters who head to Connecticut to hunt deer. Lot more pickings down there.
Pshaw. Pseudoscience.
According to Google, Bluetooth operates at 2.45 GHz. This is the same frequency as cordless phones and (older) Wi-Fi, in the microwave range.
Ionizing radiation - UV, X-rays, gamma rays, etc. - are on the opposite side of visible light on the E-M spectrum. Microwaves aren’t energetic enough to do the tissue damage that would cause cancer. And the wattage of a pair of wireless earphones isn’t even going to heat up your skin.
IMO, the long term effects of the pervasive RF soup we live in is still, ah up in the air. However your comment is definitely true.
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