The latest book
Advertisement Feature
Book 3
The book before that
The first book
See the:
See my blog posts about:
Do a search
Archives
5 popular cartoons
Links
The Cartoon Blog
Dave Walker's blog. Dave is a freelance cartoonist who draws a weekly 'Guide to the Church' for the Church Times. (more)Follow via:
The blog by email:
Recent Comments Grouped by Post
The Last 10 Comments
Things you can do
Recent Posts
Subscribe
Other sundries
There have been suggestions that wireless networks could be bad for us too.
Oh dear. The merits of living in the middle of a field somewhere in the Scottish Highlands are becoming clear.
I do not use my mobile telephone(s) very much at all, but I do have them turned on. I don’t know if that is as bad radiationwise.
If I stop posting coherently you will know I have been overcome by unseen technological waves.
If you enjoyed this post you might also enjoy these (possibly)
related articles:
If you liked this post why not send it to someone else by e-mail? Click here to do so.
This is a single post on the Cartoon Blog by Dave
posted on Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 at 10:11 am. Click here to read all of the latest posts.
Both comments and pings are currently closed.
Other things technologically advanced people may like to do: trackback from another site, follow responses via the comments feed, bookmark on del.icio.us or digg.
When you have your phone turned on it will send a signal to base every now and then to let the system know you are there. Hence you get sizzled every now and then… a sort of very slow cooker rather than a microwave…
We will look out for cartoons with evidence of brain damage when you are in your third century…till then relax…. worry is a lot more damaging than using a mobile or wifi…
I have used both for years now and not so much as spolling mistook.
Came here from Salvadore’s site. Brilliant 
I live in University Halls, with a lovely WIFI system that hits 100% in my room. I also have it in most of my classrooms, most Starbucks’ i visit, and i can pick up a few from over the road. My church has wifi. And i never turn off my mobile phone.
So I do hope THEY are mistaken.
Lovely cartoon, Dave — made me laugh out loud. I do hope you find your left eye soon; I know an optician who may be able to help if you don’t.
my ears are redder since possessing a mobile but it could be shame..
I have seen people who insist on using their mobile phones, with their arms outstreached and the phone on speaker…. as if I really want to know both halves of their conversation….
I’ve been known to hold my home phone handset at arms length when some people are calling. Wouldn’t it be a civilized world if the only communication allowed was face to face, by letter or by homing pigeon. Lovely.
Just as I thought. That’s not naturally curly hair or a perm – it’s radio wave damage.
As part of my degree my supervisor for a wireless phone charger project I did was a guy called Prof Green, who is fairly well known in the academic telecoms world (apparently). His take on it was that as time goes on radiation from mobiles would reduce, not for health reasons but performance – it isn’t power efficient to blast radio waves into your head – therefore the better the antenna (directional) the lower the power usage and the safer.
He also felt that it was far less worrying than the effects of overhead power cables, which we should be focussing on a lot more.
My wife and I used to use our mobiles a lot at university, as we were long distance for 3 years and spoke for up to 800 minutes a month on our chunky old mobiles. It did used to give us headaches but that could have been because the phone gets hot – cordless phones are also headache making. I have heard that while the phone is connecting the largest radiation is produced, hence the louder blips from speakers during connection but not talking.
My main worry is a countrywide fertility issue – as my mobile is within a few inches of my, well, you know, for about 16 hours a day, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t the same for most UK men (and women these days). If there is a link between the rising infertility rates and mobile phones then perhaps PD James will become a prophet.
As much as I’d hate to learn that your brain had been damaged by radiation (we can only hope the cartooning lobe will remain unaffected), there might be an even worse consequence. It has been asserted that cell phones are killing honey bees. Their demise could signal the fall of civilization. On the other hand I’ve long been reading that nasty mites are killing them. Maybe science could do something about killing the mites.
I read that signals from mobile phones, or the transmitters are confusing all the bees, and that is why there are not so many about. take a look at this story
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2449968.ece
maybe reason enough to turn off that mobile phone more often.
