[Ti] Laptop Health Warning!

[Paul Russell]

>
>What about the increase in brain tumors among those who engaged in
>constant cell phone usage with the phone plastered to their heads? Isn't
>this why we all ran out an bought headsets?
>

Cell phones are probably the riskiest of all the wireless devices 
that we use. The power levels can be of the order of several watts 
and the antenna is usually very close to the head. Since it's 
relatively cheap and convenient to use a headset then that's probably 
a sensible strategy, particularly if you're a heavy user (heavy in 
the metaphorical sense, that is ;-)).

Cordless phones, WiFi, etc run at an order of magnitude less power 
(milliwatts rather than watts) so are probably much less of a concern 
than cell phones.

Of course we all live with various risks. Every time you get in a car 
you're raising the probably of premature death by several orders of 
magnitude. And frequent fliers have a much higher risk of getting 
certain cancers due to the increased exposure to gamma radiation at 
high altitude (not to mention deep vein thrombosis). I don't imagine 
that anyone wants go give up travelling by car or aeroplane though. 
;-)

Paul

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