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I like to see the computer, battery, wifi/cellular radio, etc all be strapped to the my belt rather than next to the eye/brain. It is like installing a tiny m

by srcmap 8y ago

I like to see the computer, battery, wifi/cellular radio, etc all be strapped to the my belt rather than next to the eye/brain. It is like installing a tiny microwave oven next to your brain and running it continuously. Whatever on glass/goggle should just be headup display/maybe small camera with small wire connection.

Chilinot 8y ago
> ... It is like installing a tiny microwave oven next to your brain and running it continuously. ... No, it is not like that at all. Wifi/cellular radio do not generate even close to the power required to affect you in any way. [1] [1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/19285/if-microwave-ovens-and-wifi-both-operate-on-the-same-frequency-why-doesnt-wifi https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/19285/if-microwa...
- colordrops 8y ago
  Yes it absolutely does. [1] [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952570/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952570/
  - StrictDabbler 8y ago
    Have you actually read that paper? Line by line? It's garbage. The "researchers" bought a cow brain and cut a rectangular slab of it. So far so good. They put the slab in a plexiglas box and waited for it to reach thermal equilibrium with the room and air. Then then held a cell phone directly against the brain tissue for 15 minutes. Yes. That's right. They held the phone DIRECTLY AGAINST THE BRAIN. They have the gall to describe this as being "exactly as a person was communicating with a cell phone." Yes, I always hold my phone directly against my brain tissue. The effect measured was that the tissue got a fraction of a degree warmer. Of course cell-phones are very warm devices and will warm up any slab of flesh they're resting on. Did the "researchers" isolate the radio energy by testing again with the phone on airplane mode? Nope. Did they in any way distinguish between radio energy and thermal energy from a battery-operated supercomputer? Nah bro. No discussion of that whatsoever. Meanwhile, the paper is written like an undergraduate report by somebody who doesn't speak english very well and who doesn't have an editor. How could this be? Well, the paper was published in the International Journal of Preventive Medicine, a publication of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran. This journal has an impact factor of 0.98, putting in the bottom third of all journals. This isn't science in any way, shape or form. It should never be cited by anybody except as an example of a shitty, shitty paper.
- srcmap 8y ago
  This reminds me of the last scene of the movie "Thank you for smoking". The tobacco lobbyist was out of job when FDC declared smoking is not safe. He became the lobbyist for the cellular industry. At that last scene, he was training the Cell phone executive: "Repeat after me: There are no conclusive evident that cell phone usage can cause brain cancer." Since I worked in Nokia at that time, that scene just etches into my mind even after so many years. I was afraid that 20,30 years from now, some percentage of generate of kids grow up with cell phone next to their head were detected with some brain abnormality. Someone will do an experiment by putting cell phone / wifi next to lab rats and find some correlations between long extend exposure of wifi/cell signals and some kind brain damages. Wifi/Cellular microwave can't cook turkey with its 1 watts output. But I can certain feel the warm on the side of face/ear next to it for just a few minutes. I definitively WILL NOT do that for an extend period of time. I asked my family to reduce the bluetooth headset usage although I know for sure BT's power is much lower than wifi. Using wire headset or speaker is much better in my mind.

by srcmap 8y ago

Chilinot 8y ago

> ... It is like installing a tiny microwave oven next to your brain and running it continuously. ... No, it is not like that at all. Wifi/cellular radio do not generate even close to the power required to affect you in any way. [1] [1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/19285/if-microwave-ovens-and-wifi-both-operate-on-the-same-frequency-why-doesnt-wifi https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/19285/if-microwa...

colordrops 8y ago
Yes it absolutely does. [1] [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952570/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952570/
- StrictDabbler 8y ago
  Have you actually read that paper? Line by line? It's garbage. The "researchers" bought a cow brain and cut a rectangular slab of it. So far so good. They put the slab in a plexiglas box and waited for it to reach thermal equilibrium with the room and air. Then then held a cell phone directly against the brain tissue for 15 minutes. Yes. That's right. They held the phone DIRECTLY AGAINST THE BRAIN. They have the gall to describe this as being "exactly as a person was communicating with a cell phone." Yes, I always hold my phone directly against my brain tissue. The effect measured was that the tissue got a fraction of a degree warmer. Of course cell-phones are very warm devices and will warm up any slab of flesh they're resting on. Did the "researchers" isolate the radio energy by testing again with the phone on airplane mode? Nope. Did they in any way distinguish between radio energy and thermal energy from a battery-operated supercomputer? Nah bro. No discussion of that whatsoever. Meanwhile, the paper is written like an undergraduate report by somebody who doesn't speak english very well and who doesn't have an editor. How could this be? Well, the paper was published in the International Journal of Preventive Medicine, a publication of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran. This journal has an impact factor of 0.98, putting in the bottom third of all journals. This isn't science in any way, shape or form. It should never be cited by anybody except as an example of a shitty, shitty paper.
srcmap 8y ago
This reminds me of the last scene of the movie "Thank you for smoking". The tobacco lobbyist was out of job when FDC declared smoking is not safe. He became the lobbyist for the cellular industry. At that last scene, he was training the Cell phone executive: "Repeat after me: There are no conclusive evident that cell phone usage can cause brain cancer." Since I worked in Nokia at that time, that scene just etches into my mind even after so many years. I was afraid that 20,30 years from now, some percentage of generate of kids grow up with cell phone next to their head were detected with some brain abnormality. Someone will do an experiment by putting cell phone / wifi next to lab rats and find some correlations between long extend exposure of wifi/cell signals and some kind brain damages. Wifi/Cellular microwave can't cook turkey with its 1 watts output. But I can certain feel the warm on the side of face/ear next to it for just a few minutes. I definitively WILL NOT do that for an extend period of time. I asked my family to reduce the bluetooth headset usage although I know for sure BT's power is much lower than wifi. Using wire headset or speaker is much better in my mind.