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OhGizmo!: Pong iPhone Case Blocks Harmful Radiation

  • Absentia · 2 months ago
    If you are blocking the radiation, you are dropping its strength is communicating with the cell phone tower. All cell signals are forms of radiation, but its all non-ionizing and at such a low wattage it doesn't matter.
  • glacia · 2 months ago
    The key work here is 'block'. You typically have 2 types of material for this type of application; one which absorbs the energy and one that blocks it. Since this says 'block' I'll assume it's the latter. This means the energy is not lost in heat as it would be were it absorbed therefore it's being reflected. The cover wraps around the part of the phone not facing the person and leaves the part against your head open. So the energy is reflected back to the user. And and the users head is therefore absorbing MORE of the energy. However even if they're using an absorber material as Absentia points out if you attenuate the power you're reducing its effective signal strength. This is a dumb idea no matter how you look at it.
  • blairf_felgenheimer · 2 months ago
    Great .. now how am I to get my cell phone popcorn fix?
  • orangesrhyme · 2 months ago
    Bahaha, then the metal backing of your $60 dollars you just invested shorts out your $300 phone, and then it'll for sure protect you from 100% of the radiation. Permanently.