Venerable bead cuts phone radiation

MOBILE PHONE radiation on a hands free system can be stopped in its tracks if you attach a ferrite bead to the wires.

According to the chairman of the government's Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme, Professor Lawrie Challis, the radiation can be reduced to nothing.

Ferrite ball have been around for ages and are used in computers to stop interference. According to Challis, they can also stop any radiation traveling up the wires from the phone and into the earpiece. He told the BBC that the mobile phone industry should start using them "as standard".

Challis was careful to point out that there was no proof that mobile phones were harmful to health, but there was no harm being safe is there?

Here's the BBC report. µ