Thanks for the advice ajax but I fear it came too late... according to my ex-girlfriend there's something really wrong with my head! [
] It must be my excessive mobile phone usage...
Anyway... I tracked down an authoritative report on the topic of radiofrequency radiation... (where else but at the American FCC?)
http://ftp.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Documents/bulletins/oet56/oet56e3.pdf
For those who don't care or are too lazy to read through the report:
<i><b>Just keep your nuts and eyes away from the modem</b></i>. [
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"Two areas of the body, the eyes and the testes, can be particularly susceptible to heating by RF energy because of the relative lack of blood flow to dissipate the excessive heat load. Laboratory experiments have shown that short-term exposure to high levels of RF radiation (100-200mW/cm²) can cause cararacts in rabbits. Temporary sterility, caused by such effects as changes in sperm count and sperm mobility, is possible after exposure to the testes of high-level RF radiation".
For a whole lot of information on this go to the U.S. Department of Labour Occupational Heatlh and Safety Administration (OSHA):
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/radiofrequencyradiation/index.html
A bit off-topic:
There's some hope for us speed-freaks yet [8D]- There's a report on the "<i>Occupational Exposure of Police Officers to Microwave Radiation from Traffic Radar Devices</i>" [}
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There's also some "Cellphone Facts":
http://www.fda.gov/cellphones/index.html
Back to the topic - I found the following safety advice in Australia at SydneyWireless.org:
http://www.sydneywireless.org/index.php?pagename=Safety%20FAQ
The Safe Limit of Exposure:
- High gain, wall or mast mount antennas should be more than 1m from your body.
- Dipole antennas on base stations should be more than 60 cm from your body.
- The antenna on wireless cards in laptops should be more than 10 to 30 cm from your body, especially your reproductive organs.
So MyWireless subscribers considering the PCMCIA card... keep your unborn children in mind - don't use your notebook as a "laptop". [
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