Posted on 03/01/2006 6:32:02 PM PST by Vermonter
New paint blocks out cell phone signals ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 1 (UPI) -- A Rochester, N.Y., company has developed paint that can switch between blocking cell phone signals and allowing them through.
"You could use this in a concert hall, allowing cell phones to work before the concert and during breaks, but shutting them down during the performance," said Michael Riedlinger, president of NaturalNano.
Using nanotechnology, particles of copper are inserted into nanotubes, which are ultra-tiny tubes that occur naturally in halloysite clay mined in Utah. Combined with a radio-filtering device that collects phone signals from outside a shielded space, certain transmissions can proceed while others are blocked, the Chicago Tribune reported.
However, the wireless phone industry is up in arms over the development.
"We oppose any kind of blocking technology," said Joe Farren, spokesman for The Wireless Association, the leading cell phone trade group. "What about the young parents whose baby-sitter is trying to call them, or the brain surgeon who needs notification of emergency surgery? These calls need to get through."
I guess the brain surgeon should not go to the concert when he is on call...what did they ever do before cell phones?
Yeah, and what the hell did these people do 10 years ago? I don't recall the world coming to an end because people couldn't have their stupid rings going off in movie theatres.
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This is the main reason we don't have lead paint today, lead paint went out after the government started snooping
Slept in the hospital in shifts.
10 year ago pagers were ubiquitous and served pretty much the same purpose. Before that, hospitals simply paid more money to keep people in house. Today, they pay call pay which is a fraction of inhouse pay unless the physician is called in, then most, not all, but most allow the physician to independantly bill the patient by the procedure.
DUmmies will be glazing their scalps.
"We oppose any kind of blocking technology," said Joe Farren, spokesman for The Wireless Association, the leading cell phone trade group. "What about the young parents whose baby-sitter is trying to call them, or the brain surgeon who needs notification of emergency surgery? These calls need to get through."
Does anyone remember life before cell phones? I do, it seemed much quieter then.
BTW, if a neurosurgeon is on call he can stay home that night and not take the girlfriend to the symphony. (sarc)
It won't go anywhere here - maybe Japan. FCC has ruled in the past it is illegal to ban these transmissions.
Tin Foil paint FR style
And here I thought it was poisonous...
This has the potential to be an interesting thread... It may put ALCOA out of business.
When are all the cell phone companies going to be sued for the damage the waves are doing as they travel through everyone's brains?
Coming to a court near YOU!
When the cat is King, cell phones will be banned, and blackberries will be something you eat!
Yes I know what the government says, Lead paint is still on most every house with wood siding built before 1950. So who do you know that has been poisoned by lead paint.
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