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📣 tomerbd

Do you avoid bluetooth earbuds during workday due to radiation concerns?


Do you avoid bluetooth earbuds during workday due to radiation concerns?


  👤 theGeatZhopa Accepted Answer ✓
No. I have my mobile at my a-cheek all day long. Since 30 years.

That frequencies used for mobile communication are much more powerful. My a-cheek didn't change to worse or good, showing absolutely no difference to the second a-cheek.

Just a few things to consider for your decision:

- all radiation devices are tested by governmental institutions for direct harm on biological tissues.

- since the mobiles are massively used world wide, a lot of people try to find some effects on the biological tissue. Being the first to find negative effects would result in a lot of credits - the money scientists are payed with. No serious investigation/studies show negative effects.

- the low power radiation of Bluetooth don't have enough energy to warm-up the tissue. Other effects, like changing DNA or causing cancer can be ruled out, as there is no evidence for that.

- Bluetooth, Wi-fi, mobile... Insert your favorite in here, are digital. Meaning "1"s and "0"s are used to encode the information to be transfered. We use mathematical error corrections - there is no necessity to increase the signal's power in terms having a good signal, like it's with fm-radio.

- half of worlds population is using this sorts of gadgets since a long time. If there would be some adverse effects, it would be known surely xD

Writing this with my wi-fi and Bluetooth enabled laptop on my (l)eggs xD


👤 ksaj
People with hearing aids paired to their phones often have bluetooth happening all day every day. I wear hearing aids, but don't use that feature often enough to know personally. I prefer talking on the phone the normal way so I don't look like I'm crazily talking to myself.

I haven't heard of anyone having problems with Bluetooth-enabled hearing aids. And surely the ENT docs would know first hand as a result of working with their patients, and dissuade use of the feature if it was problematic.


👤 RALaBarge
Sorry, what?