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Ask HN: Do you avoid bluetooth earbuds during workday due to radiation concerns?

2 points by tomerbd 5y ago

RALaBarge 5y ago
Sorry, what?
- tomerbd 5y ago
  When I wear Bluetooth earbuds (I tried multiple) after a few minutes I feel some strange feeling not sure how to describe like very, very low pain or just some comfort, this does not ever happen to me with wired. I wondered if HN community can tell if Bluetooth earbuds are safe to wear all day…
theGeatZhopa 5y ago
No. I have my mobile at my a-cheek all day long. Since 30 years. That frequencies used for mobile communication are much more powerful. My a-cheek didn't change to worse or good, showing absolutely no difference to the second a-cheek. Just a few things to consider for your decision: - all radiation devices are tested by governmental institutions for direct harm on biological tissues. - since the mobiles are massively used world wide, a lot of people try to find some effects on the biological tissue. Being the first to find negative effects would result in a lot of credits - the money scientists are payed with. No serious investigation/studies show negative effects. - the low power radiation of Bluetooth don't have enough energy to warm-up the tissue. Other effects, like changing DNA or causing cancer can be ruled out, as there is no evidence for that. - Bluetooth, Wi-fi, mobile... Insert your favorite in here, are digital. Meaning "1"s and "0"s are used to encode the information to be transfered. We use mathematical error corrections - there is no necessity to increase the signal's power in terms having a good signal, like it's with fm-radio. - half of worlds population is using this sorts of gadgets since a long time. If there would be some adverse effects, it would be known surely xD Writing this with my wi-fi and Bluetooth enabled laptop on my (l)eggs xD
ksaj 5y ago
People with hearing aids paired to their phones often have bluetooth happening all day every day. I wear hearing aids, but don't use that feature often enough to know personally. I prefer talking on the phone the normal way so I don't look like I'm crazily talking to myself. I haven't heard of anyone having problems with Bluetooth-enabled hearing aids. And surely the ENT docs would know first hand as a result of working with their patients, and dissuade use of the feature if it was problematic.

2 points by tomerbd 5y ago

RALaBarge 5y ago

Sorry, what?

tomerbd 5y ago
When I wear Bluetooth earbuds (I tried multiple) after a few minutes I feel some strange feeling not sure how to describe like very, very low pain or just some comfort, this does not ever happen to me with wired. I wondered if HN community can tell if Bluetooth earbuds are safe to wear all day…

theGeatZhopa 5y ago

No. I have my mobile at my a-cheek all day long. Since 30 years. That frequencies used for mobile communication are much more powerful. My a-cheek didn't change to worse or good, showing absolutely no difference to the second a-cheek. Just a few things to consider for your decision: - all radiation devices are tested by governmental institutions for direct harm on biological tissues. - since the mobiles are massively used world wide, a lot of people try to find some effects on the biological tissue. Being the first to find negative effects would result in a lot of credits - the money scientists are payed with. No serious investigation/studies show negative effects. - the low power radiation of Bluetooth don't have enough energy to warm-up the tissue. Other effects, like changing DNA or causing cancer can be ruled out, as there is no evidence for that. - Bluetooth, Wi-fi, mobile... Insert your favorite in here, are digital. Meaning "1"s and "0"s are used to encode the information to be transfered. We use mathematical error corrections - there is no necessity to increase the signal's power in terms having a good signal, like it's with fm-radio. - half of worlds population is using this sorts of gadgets since a long time. If there would be some adverse effects, it would be known surely xD Writing this with my wi-fi and Bluetooth enabled laptop on my (l)eggs xD

ksaj 5y ago

People with hearing aids paired to their phones often have bluetooth happening all day every day. I wear hearing aids, but don't use that feature often enough to know personally. I prefer talking on the phone the normal way so I don't look like I'm crazily talking to myself. I haven't heard of anyone having problems with Bluetooth-enabled hearing aids. And surely the ENT docs would know first hand as a result of working with their patients, and dissuade use of the feature if it was problematic.