New paint blocks out cell phone signals

UPI via Drudge ^ | 3/1/2006 | None provided

[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."

[Jaysun]

All one has to do to block all malicious and unwanted signals to a room is cover the walls with aluminum foil. My shiny office is a place of peace and tranquility.

[antaresequity]

Check this out...

Atlas Mining Company is a diversified natural resource company with its primary focus today on the development of the Dragon Mine in Juab County, Utah, the only known commercial source of Halloysite clay outside of New Zealand. The unique purity and quality of the Dragon mine Halloysite is unmatched anywhere in the world and has spawned considerable research into new and exciting applications for this product. Atlas also holds mining and timber interests in Northern Idaho, operates an underground mining contracting business, and is continuously looking for new opportunities in the mining and natural resources industry. Atlas stock trades on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol "ALMI". More information about Atlas Mining Company can be found at http://www.atlasmining.com .

[antaresequity]

http://www.naturalnano.com/halloysite

Naturally formed in the Earth over millions of years, halloysite nanotubes are unique nanomaterials with remarkable properties. Like carbon nanotubes (CNTs), halloysite nanotubes are ultra-tiny hollow tubes with diameters typically smaller than 100 nanometers (100 billionths of a meter), with lengths typically ranging from about 500 nanometers to over 1.2 microns (millionths of a meter).

But instead of carbon, they are composed of aluminum, silicon, hydrogen, and oxygen and are formed naturally in the Earth by surface weathering of aluminosilicate minerals, rather than in laboratories.

[not_apathetic_anymore]

what did they ever do before cell phones

Used the beeper on the 'vibrate' mode.

[HereInTheHeartland]

"the hell did these people do 10 years ago? "

It's not 10 years ago, it's today.
People have changed, people have changed how they communicate and do business.
I do mortgage lending, many people don't even have a home phone anymore. This is different than even 2 years ago.

Many professional people are on call most of the time, cell phones are the primary way to communicate. People need to use manners yes. But anyone that thinks cell phones are a nonessential item is not in the loop.

I have 3 kids, one diabetic. I will be accessible to my kids, and they to me. I don't really care if someone has a problem with that.

[Rocky]

I need some of this paint for my tinfoil hat.

[ASA Vet]

what did they ever do before cell phones?

Left word with their service about where they'd be. Their service could then call the concert hall, restaurant, movie, etc. if need be.

[quantim]

but it's certainly not illegal to simplyfilter them out.

But if they're also FCC granted frequencies used by emergency personnel, well that's a big no-no.

[Sofa King]

It's not common sense, it's common decency.

The idea of thinking about how your actions will impact others and being considerate to complete strangers simply because they're human beings too has gone out of style. Now it's "do whatever you want whenever you want to and to hell with anyone who doesn't like it".

[Blue Jays]

Hi HereInTheHeartland-

"...Many professional people are on call most of the time, cell phones are the primary way to communicate. People need to use manners yes. But anyone that thinks cell phones are a nonessential item is not in the loop. I have 3 kids, one diabetic. I will be accessible to my kids, and they to me. I don't really care if someone has a problem with that..."

---

You might be more aligned with people not particularly enamored with cellular telephones than you think. Do you utilize the following techniques when you're out and about with a wireless communications device on your hip:

• Telephone strictly on vibrate mode in theaters, museums, and restaurants
• No text messaging in darkened theaters
• Send callers to voicemail when with another people
• Leave the room if you must urgently take a call
• Apologize to those same people when you return
• Avoid using cellular on all mass transportation

As far as the critical need to reach someone, we're pretty much all dispensable. We like to think that our jobs are pivotal to the continued orbit of this planet around the sun, but the simple fact-of-the-matter is there are others that can handle our affairs (both business & personal) until we're reacheable once again.

Amtrak has a fantastic "silent car" where radios and cellular telephones must be turned off, which is one of the finest ways to travel these days. The final straw will be airline travel. It is my sincere wish that use of cellular telephones be prohibited while airborne. This is essentially the last place of quiet refuge from those infernal devices and (frequently) the loudmouth knuckleheads who yammer into them all day.

~ Blue Jays ~

[farlander]

LOL. I did hate chemistry in college, but logic was fun.

It does absorb through the skin, too. In addition, small particles can and do get off the walls and can be absorbed through the skin, or inhalation. What is questionable is whether intake through those means is sizeable enough to poison you. Personally, I'll pass on heavy metal anything in my house. Human chemistry doesn't deal well with them well to say the least, and they pretty much stay in your body, until they kill ya or you die of something else.

If anything, I'm not buying for a second a tin foil hat theory that they banned the lead paint so that they could use the "rays" or whatever to eavesdrop on citizens.

[pterional]

I wonder if this paint would block EMP ( electromagnetic pulse)??

[Marie]

...what did they ever do before cell phones?

I've always resisted getting a cell. I considered them a luxury item and I've always been practical about the "need" vs. "want" thing.

Then my son became a diabetic. A brittle diabetic. For a year we were chained to each other's sides. He was 11 and wanted to get away from mom from time to time. But my husband couldn't even take his own son hiking, just in case they needed to contact me for instructions.

So I broke down and got a cell. Now I can go to the store by myself, hubby and I can go out to dinner and a movie once in a Blue moon, and the kid can go to his friend's house with it. It's saved us time and time again.

I can see how folks waiting years for a heart transplant would go nuts sitting by the phone month after month. And, now that my daughter's a teen, I don't let her leave the house without it. (I remember sitting in my car, with the front end dangling over a cliff for hours until someone stumbled onto my situation and winched me out of it. A cell would've been nice right about that time. Geez, 17 is a stupid age!!)

But when I'm in a "quite" place, that sucker is set on vibrate and I immediately relocate someplace where I can talk without bothering anyone.

[Minutemen]

Does anyone remember life before cell phones?
Yep! you could actually have a conversation with a friend, over dinner or lunch without their cell phone interruping things.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Lead is poisonous ONLY WHEN YOU PUT IT IN YOUR MOUTH!

Solution to lead poisoning: DON'T PUT LEAD PAINT IN YOUR MOUTH!

Don't let it get into the ground water, absorbed into crops and livestock, or atomized so people can breath it in particulates.

Lead poisoning is a real problem. Lead pipes and lead paint were serious sources of poisoning even without chewing on your exterior siding or interior walls.

It also initiates tooth decay and has a cumulative effect on the body like mercury.

The solution to lead poisoning is to simply not use lead unless it is absolutely necessary... in things like bullets, protective plating to block x-rays or radioactive exposures, solder, batteries, etc...

A similiar problem with lead can be illustrated with uranium, which if not mined and taken out of the ground in sensitive areas, will leech into water supplies. Lead sulfide is nasty stuff. Lead is also often hardened with arsenic, which, excuse the f--- out of me for saying so, isn't exactly like eating a marshmellow...

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>I wonder if this paint would block EMP ( electromagnetic pulse)??<<<

Screw the paint taking an EMP - I wonder if this place would take one: http://www.thebunker.net/our-facilities/data.htm

[Lurker]

I love your tagline.

L

[Lazamataz]

Cool!

"What about the ... brain surgeon who needs notification of emergency surgery? These calls need to get through."

Oh well. Looks like there will be one less brain in Murrica.

[Lazamataz]

Support the Troops. Slap a hippy.

I have a happy hippy slappy hobby.

[Fresh Wind]

Does anyone remember life before cell phones?

I remember when people who walked around in a daze talking to themselves were considered crazy. Now...