Exradia suggests that iPhones could warp brains

While we wouldn't mind a bit if the iPhone had an easy-to-replace battery like most mobiles these days, it seems that Exradia feels that such an oversight was nothing short of (potentially) harmful. As you very well know, we've seen so much conflicting data regarding the true danger of "cellphone radiation" that we've basically given up on trying to make sense of it all, but the aforementioned replacement battery outfit -- which just so happens to integrate a mystical RF-blocking circuit into each cell -- is reportedly "surprised [that] Apple has chosen to ignore this potential health issue" by not giving users the option to spend a bit of coin with Exradia. David Schick, the firm's chief executive, went on to state that there was "no scientific evidence that clearly demonstrates mobile devices are safe," but he unsurprisingly failed to mention that the flipside of that statement is also true. Whatever the case, we wouldn't worry too much about this shameless grub for money -- considering just how many mobile users are yapping it up right now, we'll all go down together should these fears prove true.

[Via TGDaily]

[Dustin Frazier @ Nov 10th 2007 3:36PM]

Second-hand radiation lawsuits. Adding 61 cent tax to every call to pay for schip.

[nikola @ Nov 10th 2007 4:33PM]

Yep. Give it another decade or two. Though I expect the damage from cellphones to be alot more severe than any cigarette.

[ugg.tryptophan @ Nov 10th 2007 6:41PM]

iTumor!!!

[coolant8 @ Nov 10th 2007 3:45PM]

WOW, the finest benefits of first gen product

[snitch @ Nov 10th 2007 3:50PM]

Dam everything is iphone and ipods these day huh? yesterday a CNN news reporter said iphones and ipods where full of toxins, but them he felt like an ass when the anchor asked him if the rest outhere where made of chewing gum lol, anyone one out here like chewing there ipods or iphones?

[Dark Morford @ Nov 10th 2007 4:11PM]

"Do not eat iPod Shuffle."

[Aaron Cruikshank @ Nov 10th 2007 3:51PM]

How the hell does your cell phone work if it blocks its own radio frequencies?
It seems on par with this dehydrated water I've been hearing so much about.

[a ham sandwich @ Nov 10th 2007 4:43PM]

no no no. you're getting that confused with the "just-add-water" powdered water.

also dont forget my personal favorite invention (next to the wheel, of course) the solar powered flashlight :P

[ethana2 @ Nov 11th 2007 2:38AM]

That flashlight sounds like time-shifting.

AAAHH Solar Energy Association of America lawyers are showing up at my house!

...evidently I didn't /own/ that sunlight, I was just leasing it to use for direct illumination.. why don't they tell you that when you buy the land?

[ethana2 @ Nov 11th 2007 2:46AM]

Ah yes, they reserved the right to change the ToS without notifying me...

I guess what I mean to say is --bigger issues out there, folks. There are things we know are messed up without wild speculation. Let's focus on those first.

[Crooky @ Nov 10th 2007 3:53PM]

Also, I heard that the exradia batteries come with magnetic wrist bands that you can wear to filter out any harmful RF particles (aka "the radiations")while you use your deadly, deadly cell phone.

[eurobloke @ Nov 10th 2007 4:18PM]

Talk about bad science in this company.

First, the power of the microwaves coming off the phones is minute. (about 10 watts, about the same as a lightbulb)

Secondly, your brain is petty well protected by your skull and skin. Something has to be powerful to penetrate though it.

Thirdly, your brain can't "melt", it is large bag of nerves. The only way it can hurt you in nerves area, is where you might get frustrated by the interface.

Next thing they might do, is recommend a Q-Link pendent or a Clairns spray to stop you from “awful” 900MHz rays!

[Anonymous Coward @ Nov 10th 2007 8:07PM]

This reminds me of Atlas Shrugged (ayn rand)

In one part of the book the government wanted to discourage use of Rearden Steel (new type of stronger cheaper steel). They were not able to find any faults with it, and instead published something along the lines of "Rearden Steel may or may not hold up over repeated use, and it may or may not prove to be faulty in the long run." And of course sales plummeted.

[Eric @ Nov 11th 2007 10:12AM]

"about 10 Watts"

Actually, modern phones are much less than that, on the order of 300mW. 10 Watts would require a very large battery and would likely generate a large amount of waste heat (much like my Kenwood TH-6a HT, running at 5 Watts out).

Even the first gen (US) AMPS cell phones were limited to 3 Watts.

[Justin @ Nov 13th 2007 8:50AM]

@Coward

Something like that, but Rand would never have admitted that a company (i.e., not a government) would pull that kind of stunt. :p

[Constable Odo @ Nov 10th 2007 5:00PM]

The David Schick and the Exradia staff must have been using iPhones. Their brains are totally warped.

[Leslie @ Nov 10th 2007 5:14PM]

What is important to remember is that cell phone radiation falls of as the inverse square, so if you are 10 times further away, you will get 100 times less radiation. So in that sense it is not like second hand smocking because if someone is on the phone 3 feet away from you then you get about 1225 times less radiation than if you were on the phone yourself.

[Fruition @ Nov 10th 2007 5:20PM]

Smocking is bad for you...

[Leslie @ Nov 10th 2007 5:28PM]

that is my point - that smocking is worse for you than cell phones because smoke spreads everywhere!

[Greg Poole @ Nov 10th 2007 6:53PM]

I always take off my smock when I go out so as not to hurt others.

[Matt H. @ Nov 11th 2007 2:49AM]

Wait... radiation levels fall off by the cube not the square, no? So even if it is X amount of watts, as long as you don't have the antenna area pressed against your skull (as all cell phones recommend) then you should be fine.

100 rads or 1 SI at 1cm = 1 rad or .001 SI at 2cm

In the long run,
buy a $2 head set or use speaker phone if you're that concerned...

[newgalactic @ Nov 10th 2007 5:14PM]

It warps brains, ...and melts faces. nice.

[Mike Cohen @ Nov 10th 2007 6:16PM]

Every a$$hole singles out the iPhone when every cell phone in existance has the same alleged dangers (if they are in fact real). They can all go f*** themselves. They'll pry my iPhone out of my cold, dead hands.

[Luis @ Nov 10th 2007 7:17PM]

hahaha
I'm gonna die in 5 days now huh?
I was reading this line, "no scientific evidence that clearly demonstrates mobile devices are safe,"
when my boss called me on my iPhone seconds ago.

[dj-kenpo @ Nov 10th 2007 8:37PM]

sigh. so many scam artsits so little ability to force chock them all.

[NG @ Nov 10th 2007 9:24PM]

1 all all, all for 1 eh?

[Erik @ Nov 10th 2007 10:33PM]

When would you have time to phone anyone betwixt the smocking and chocking?

[hn333 @ Nov 10th 2007 11:05PM]

I don't know about this story, but I think it's crap that you can't changed the iPhone battery's without have to crack the stupid thing open. Stupid move, I don't plan on getting one.

[Crooky @ Nov 11th 2007 4:49AM]

Yeah. Way to stick it to the man.
"They'll drown in their own unsold inventory! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!"

[random @ Nov 11th 2007 3:25AM]

the brain waves in your mind are 40 hertz, MAXIMUM. microwaves from a cell phone won't kill you anytime soon...you have a bigger threat from UV rays.