Result: The five shields did virtually nothing to reduce the brain's exposure to cell phone radiation, says Donald Mays, the institute's technical director.
Touting itself as the industry's "first smart mobile provider, " Zact takes an entirely different tact to cell phone service, offering the consumer total control over voice, text and data plans, even across multiple devices.
The findings of the study, which examined the subjects during just one 50-minute exposure, raise a key question, the researchers said: What, if any, are the long-term consequences of repeated increased brain activity due to exposure to cell phone radiation?
"We believe reasonable suspicion existed to seize the cell phone, and to transcribe the information in the cell phone, " he says.
Najib and his brother Taha became billionaires by being among the first to bring cell phone use to Africa. (See story in billionaires issue).
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This ordinance amends the city's controversial Cell Phone Right to Know Act, a similar but more cumbersome law passed last year that required cell phone retailers to post and distribute radiation information for every make and model of cell phone they sell.
Finally, the past two decades have seen an explosive growth in cell phone use from 0 to 5 billion cell phone subscriptions.
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This difficult task would be tantamount to trying to decide what cell phone to get when Option A costs a certain amount except for calls made between 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Educationalists have spoken of the need to make schools safer, with metal detectors, security guards and conveniently placed cell phones (one Columbine student, cowering under a desk, failed to get through to the police but managed to use his cell phone to talk to a television station).
While the world waits for more research to be conducted, consumers can take steps to limit cell phone radiation exposure by using the speakerphone or a wired earpiece to make calls.
"The human brain is sensitive to the electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell phones, but for the brain to be impacted, the cell phone has to be close to the head, " Volkow said.
Special offer: Mobile TV is coming to your cell phone if it hasn't already.
Technology even allows some of those clues to go straight to your cell phone or other mobile device.
Nobody was thinking about this issue as it applies to the cell phone.
Moulder, a radiation biologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin who has been a consultant to the cell phone industry.
By connecting the VR3 to a cell phone, users can send and receive e-mail and attachments and browse the Web.
But in Britain, the United States and many other countries, it is illegal for civilians to use cell phone blockers.
"This was an eye-opening assignment because I, like so many people, am very attached to my cell phone, " she said.
Furthermore, the team is looking into the possibility of enabling the same technology to allow cell phone conversations using the system.
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Umm I guess he needs to sue every single tv and display manufacturer in the world, not to mention cell phone providers.
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Every day, 120, 000 new Chinese customers subscribe to a cell phone service.
People get annoyed when someone calls randomly on a landline, and get outright outraged when an unsolicited call comes in to their cell phone.
The group estimates that about 1.7 billion people in the developing will have access to a cell phone but no bank account in 2012.
To counteract data loss, Main.net's cofounder and head scientist, Schaike Zalitsky , built on techniques used to beam cell phone calls through the noisy air.
He'd just walked away from a business failure in Florida, running through "several hundred thousand dollars" in a blighted attempt to build cell phone towers.
But thanks to mismanagement by the FCC, only a small slice of the electromagnetic spectrum is available for the flexible, exclusive licenses needed to provide cell phone service.
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Manufacturers of many popular cell phones already warn consumers to keep their device away from their body and medical experts say there other ways to minimize cell phone radiation.
The head of a prominent cancer-research institute at the University of Pittsburgh sent a memo to all employees urging them to limit cell phone use because of a possible risk of cancer.
Also, as a help to making plans and reservations while on the road, I took along a Tep portable wireless hotspot, having fallen victim to massive cell phone roaming charges in the past.
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