Mobiles could fry your hands
THE DANGER of radiation frying your brains is a common fear. There's also the fear that carrying a mobile phone on your waist belt can zap your gonads. But the INQ's never heard of the worry that a handset can zap your hands.
Well, that's what boffins from the University of Bradford's Mobile and Satellite Communications Research Centre (MSCRC) say could happen.
They've just finished building a £800,000 ($1,590, 000) 'anechoic chamber' to investigate how mobile phones work safe in the knowledge that other forms of RF cannot get inside the chamber.
The guy in charge, Professor Raed Abd-Alhameed has said that the Centre is also currently looking at how the radiation from mobile phone handsets affects people. "The EPSRC is funding research here into the design of new antennas for mobile phone handsets to reduce 'coupling' between the hand and the handset," he declared.
"What that basically means is that we are looking at how a different sort of antenna could reduce the amount of radiation that passes into your hand when you hold a mobile phone, which not only might have health implications but also impairs the performance of the handset."
The lawyers will have a field day. Cue class action in the US from phone users saying their hands hurt. µ
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My paw is aching a little.
Unless you don't agree that there's biologically damaging radiation coming from mobiles, then it is obvious that it's going to fry whatever body part it's near to. The safest ones will be hands-free models since they aren't in direct contact with you at all.
lol.
Yeah right, they are worried about the mobile phones performance.
what about the already evident performance degradation of the user (ref.. any Crackberry abuser).
maybe they will find that for optimum performance a 100% decoupling with the user is required. (works for me ;p)

In the meantime, i'm all for the ultra mobile 100% remote decoupling devices from china (the one with the little on/off switch). 
Perfect for the id10t shouting 'Hello i'm on the.....'(network that don't work no more round here)

Sorted! :)
This is why women need excessive amounts of cosmetic products. They are constaly using their mobile phones!!

The phones ruin their naturally perfect skin. This also applies to their faces.

I'll make sure my wife knows about this. When the results are out she might manage to actually pay for all those products via lawsuit.


P.S.

We'll donate 10% of the winnings to the inquirer for their part in this.
I split a nail!
Nick Naylor: Gentlemen, practice these words in front of the mirror: Although we are constantly exploring the subject, currently there is no direct evidence that links cell phone usage to brain cancer.