Today, almost every  individual uses a mobile phone without being aware of it’s harmful side effects. Like trendy clothes, all want to use trendy mobiles to look fashionable.

Flashing costly mobiles is the order of the day. Many carry two mobiles to flaunt at public places.

Just Think for yourself. Do You really need to use a mobile all the time? Can you not do your work by communicating on a land line number? Must you converse in trains, buses , malls and other public places? Will your work really suffer, if you wait to get to a land line  number?

Well, if you sincerely analyze the real necessity of a mobile phone in your work/business, you will probably feel that you are unnecessarily using the mobile most of the times, under the garb of business.

Have you ever pondered over the harmful/ adverse effects of mobile usage on your body/brain.

Mobile phones and their link with cancer has been an ongoing debate for decades. Reports received after various studies are inconclusive. Some reports point towards brain tumor while some fail to substantiate the same.

With proper planning and usage, one can safeguard oneself from the adverse effects of mobiles on our body/brain.

Harmful Effects Of Mobiles

Mobile phones and personal communications systems are low-power radio devices that transmit and receive signals in the radio frequency (RF) range 900 and/or 1800 megahertz through a network of base stations. Most countries have brought in regulations to limit public exposure to RF radiation.

Exposure to RF radiation can occur from the base station, and mobile phones.The intensity of radiation decreases a few meters from the antenna. Most of the base stations are located in populated areas therefore, those people living in the path of the beam are more prone to exposure to radiations.

Every mobile has a transmitter and an antenna. RF energy generated by transmitter (one to two watts) is radiated through Antenna. Most of the energy is absorbed by brain since, mobile is held close to the head. Due to absorption of RF energy (expressed as specific absorption rate- SAR)  by human body, the tissue temperature of body increases. SAR is measured in units of watts per kg (W/Kg ) of tissue.

However ,If the heat generated is small, the body’s thermoregulatory mechanism can dissipate it without causing adverse effects. If the temperature exceeds this capacity, (about 1 to 2 degree celsius), tissue damage may occur.

Based on the experiments carried out on some animals and human beings (volunteers), some of the adverse affects called as “Thermal Effects” are listed below:-

• Penetration of the blood-brain barrier.

•  Disturbed neuro muscular functions.
•  Lens opacity.
• Reduced sperm production.

Other possible effects are as follows:-

• Spending a lot of time on cell phone disturbs sleep.
• Studies show that use of cell phones for more than 10 years increase the risk of Glioma
• Radio waves from mobile phones do harm body cells and damage DNA.
• High blood pressure.
• Headaches, Fatigue, Stress
• Because of their smaller heads, thinner skulls and higher tissue conductivity, children may absorb more energy from a given phone than adults.

The ICNIRP ( International Commission for Non-ionizing Radiation Protection) has recommended RF exposure levels for general public, in terms of power densities, as 4.5 W/m2 and 9.0 W/m2 respectively for the 900 and 1800 MHZ frequency radiations. Exposures below these levels are harmless.

Surveys have shown that RF exposure from base stations in areas accessible to public are normally much lower than these guidelines. However, the actual levels depend upon the number of channels, total power radiated, multiplicity of the towers in the neighborhood etc.

No surveys have been conducted in India. 

The onus for demonstrating safety of base stations now lies with service providers. 

The Indian government recently decided to adopt the guidelines issued by ICNIRP, an international science body, 

Recommendations

It is in the interest of every individual to use mobiles sparingly to avoid any possible chance of harmful effects of RF radiations on human body.

Next time you use a mobile, please think twice-Can you do without a mobile?

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Nikhil

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A birthday party has been organized by Mozilla Firefox supporters at Adobe (Noida) to spread more awareness and to bring all the fans together.

Party Date: November 22nd, 2009
Time: 2pm to 5pm IST
Where: Adobe (Noida Campus), Sector 25A, Noida. Uttar Pradesh, India

There will be cake cutting ceremony followed by a Quiz on Firefox. Lots of prizes to be won – Firefox t-shirts and goodies. All this will be followed by an open house chilling/lounging/networking session.

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Nikhil

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Psshhhh ::  last year’s WWDC served as the coming-out party for the iPhone 3G, and given all the recent rumors of a new iPhone model—not to mention the fact that these things tend to go in one-year cycles. It will come as a big shock if Apple didn’t have a new iPhone to show off.

Apple may announce following  for its iphone in this conference:

• higher-resolution camera which should allow video recording
• improved 3G chipsets to pump up faster data speeds
• better graphic
• better battery life with less power-hungry OLED display
• more memory – maybe upto 32gb
• cut and paste facility
• Picture Messaging – MMS
• spotlight universal search
  

  Nikhil

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  ‘It’s so hard to find quality time for ourselves nowadays. Even if we go out for a quiet dinner, my husband’s phone never stops ringing. So we end up not having a good time and eventually fight,’ said Maneka Singh, a 29-year-old housewife.

  Many men and women complain of their partner’s pre-occupation with mobiles, laptops, MP3 players, iPods, videogame consoles and other hi-tech gizmos.

  Indore-based Roshni Wadhwani, who has been married for nine years, says: ‘My husband checks the talk time on my mobile. We always fight when he questions me on why the balance amount is low because he has to refill it. It is very irritating.’

  Aditya Kumar, 22, says his girlfriend nags him about his excessive use of the cell phone, laptop and Playstation.

  ‘My girlfriend forever fights on these issues. ‘Who were you talking to?’ ‘Why couldn’t you call me instead?’ ‘Why are you on the laptop?’ ‘Don’t work on it while talking to me’ – these are just some of the statements I get to hear from her almost every day.

  ‘At times she goes so crazy that she starts making comparisons between the laptop and herself and asks me who I love more. It’s insane,’ Kumar rued.

  According to leading psychiatrist Sanjay Chugh, a lot of couples approach him with similar problems.

  ‘Many a time partners complain that the other person loves his or her laptop or cell phone more than him or her. Or that the technical equipment is his or her first love!’ Chugh told IANS.

  ‘They would feel unattended and unimportant as the partner is spending most of his or her time using the gadget. This becomes a source of distress for the other person leaving him or her to feel discontented and dissatisfied,’ explained Chugh.

  Even Samir Parikh, chief of the mental health and behavioural science department in Max Healthcare, agrees.

  ‘Fights happen when one partner ends up substituting the personal or social time and it gets replaced with time used on technology, whether for work or for recreation,’ Parikh told IANS.

  Nikita Sharma, another housemaker, says she gets really upset when her husband can’t take out time for her, even during breakfast, as he gets busy attending official calls from 9 a.m.

  ‘In the morning he gets calls and during the day he does not want me to call because he gets disturbed. By the time he comes back home he is either so tired and exhausted that he just wants to crash on the bed or turns to the computer to finish his pending projects.

  ‘There is hardly any quality conversation between us,’ she said.

  Experts suggest that to resolve such technology-related relationship issues, partners must be able and willing to spend quality time with each other, share thoughts and feelings and also take regular breaks together.

  ‘Making each other feel loved and cared for are essential ingredients that can keep couples strong enough to live through the rough phases of life – related or unrelated to technology,’ said Chugh.

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  ]]> http://www.kukikol.com/twos-company-technologys-crowd-complain-indian-couples/feed/ 0 http://www.kukikol.com/race-for-solar-powered-cell-phones-samsung-unveils-blue-earth/ http://www.kukikol.com/race-for-solar-powered-cell-phones-samsung-unveils-blue-earth/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:22:03 +0000 Nikhil http://www.kukikol.com/?p=7 The phone is green, despite its blue color, and it’s not just the integrated solar panels that make it so. The Blue Earth is made of recycled plastic, features a pedometer, and even software that reaffirms just how much you’re helping the planet by using it. If Al Gore had one of these mobile devices in hand, it would likely explode.

  Besides being handy and eco-friendly, the phone appears to be gorgeous. The solar panels reside on the back, and the front is a full touch screen. Despite the new technologies, it should fit nicely in your pocket. We should know more about pricing and availability next week.

  Another group that might find this phone attractive would be those crazy outdoorsy types: campers, hunters, fish enthusiasts, and other sportsmen could extend their trips into the wilderness while remaining in contact with the outside world in case of emergencies. We’d like to see other phones with practical solar panels just for this…..Source

  

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