A handset for your mobile phone? [With poll]

I thought this was a pretty cool idea back in about 2001 when I saw one for an old nokia brick.

Then they invented bluetooth.

They were cool when they popped up on thinkgeek.com about 5 years ago, now they are so old news that no-one cares. The only people who would think them cool would be the APS tossers in Parliament House. I would say the ones who are in their thirties, single and still trying to be cool by following what everyone else says is cool…3 years after the fact.

krats said :

I Thought Men’s Brains Were Next To Their Balls.

Yours appears to be nowhere near a keyboard.

Those handsets have been available as geekware for years. Along with shrinters et al. They are meant to be ironic. If people have started using them as a cancer-avoidance strategy then they have totally missed the point.

I suspect either the media or the users have been hoaxed.

No need for one of those, my tin foil hat protects me….

I didn’t really need it, but it’s just further confirmation that the denizens of the house on the hill are, for the most part, morons. Pretentious morons at that.

C’mon guys its not about the radiation, its about the funky retro style.

Basketcase there is no way to avoid radio frequencies, the world is built on them. Even light which is so essential for life to exist is actually a form of radio frequency and in the grand scheme of things not all that far off the frequecies used by mobiles. The damaging stuff is way way way up the spectrum.

…..or you could just get a discrete wired/bluetooth headset. Shifts the radiation away from your head (if you believe in that sort of thing) and you don’t completely ruin all the hard work that smart phone engineers put in to creating a device that is actually portable.

Surely in Parliament House, it’s less about the potential for brain tumours, and more about the chance to begin a conversation with “Is that a handset in your pocket, or…”

Probably a lot more comfortable to hold during long, boring conversations with your colleagues.

Senator Bill Heffernan has one – if that doesn’t influence your vote I don’t know what will!

basketcase said :

Keeps the radio frequencies away from the brain.

I Thought Men’s Brains Were Next To Their Balls.

basketcase said :

Keeps the radio frequencies away from the brain.

instead keep it in you front pocket near your groin?

Who In Parliament Has Balls??

Keeps the radio frequencies away from the brain.

There is no known physical way that the radiation emitted by mobile phones is capable of causing the DNA mutations that lead to cancer. There is a push by some neurosurgeons that mobile phone radiation is linked to the development of brain cancer but the evidence for this is from retrospective studies; prospective studies have been unable to rule out a incredibly minute increase in cancer rates due to mobile phones.

Brain cancers happened before the introduction of mobile phones and the increase in incidence of cancer has not matched the increase in mobile phone use.

See this site (by ARPANSA, the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency):
http://www.arpansa.gov.au/mobilephones/index.cfm

Mobile phones do not produce ionising radiation. Therefore, they do not do not cause the sorts of changes that can cause cancer. Theoretically, the radio frequency radiation they do produce can cause heat to build up, but I reckon no more than a beanie would. Mobile phones are safe.

And yes, the phones look stupid, but that wouldn’t stop the youth of today hurf durf.

It’s Today Tonight style hysteria.