If you use your cell phone a lot, you might start to worry about harmful radio waves. With iPhones being used all the time, you start to wonder at exactly what the effect of using cell phones for that long actually has. Well, you don't worry as much if you know about Pong.
Pong Research has developed these cases, which are designed for the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and Blackberry Curve. That's it for now, but we're sure that more models will be available shortly. The Pong case basically redirects the radio waves away from your head thanks to a Gold PCB module. The silicone case nicely protects your smartphone. Apparently this silicone is of a special type of blend which will maximize cellular signal strength.
The manufacturer actually says that this is the only case that has been scientifically proven to redirect radiation and protect your head from it. It reduces cell phone radiation by 60%. It reduces hotspot cell phone radiation by 85%. This was tested and verified by the FCC. The iPhone versions of the Pong case sell for $60, while the Blackberry version sells for $50.
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Comments (4)
If they knew definitively that cell phones caused brain tumors I want to know who would keep using their phone but with this junk attached? Who!???
To carbonadam:
People have known for a hundred years that tobacco products cause cancer, but lots of people still smoke. High fat, low fiber diets cause cancer and other illnesses, but I don't see McDonald's sales hurt by that fact.
A major problem with slow-developing illnesses like this is that manufacturers have plausible deniability. But of equal importance is that consumers can stay in denial about it. It's a product that they enjoy, and often get habituated to using. And people tend to think, aw, that will happen to the other guy, not me.
The problems with cellular radiation are not limited to the head. There are well done Scandinavian studies that show that cell phones worn on the back-hip area cause damage to the kidney closest to it. An Egyptian study has shown that exposure of the testis to 8 hours a day of cellular radiation for six weeks in the STAND-BY MODE reduced sperm motility by 90% (read infertility). One study links cell phone radiation exposure of the fetus of Wistar rats to the reduction of a developmental brain neuron known as a mirror-neuron. The lack of mirror-neurons has been linked to Autism.
The fact is that cell phone radiation causes advanced oxidative stress of ANY tissue that it radiates in to. Advanced oxidative stress = premature aging of the tissue. I no longer carry my phone. I keep it in my brief case, car and on my desk or table. I NEVER place it in my pocket. I use the speaker phone almost exclusively AND I use a hard-wired phone for all of my business calls. I saw an interview one morning on the Today show and they were talking about Tweeting with an Editor of a gadget magazine and he reached into his sports jacket pocket to retrieve his iPhone. I wrote him an email that day explaining that carrying his phone over his heart was not a good idea. I'm sure he dismissed it as paranoia.
Carl Lanore
"thanks to a Gold PCB module"
Whew, and here I thought it was a snake oil module.