A UCLA student has cooked up a reliable microscope attachment for mobile phones that can help medical professionals around the world while staying affordable. We had actually checked in with LUCAS’ creator, Aydogan Ozcan, a little over a year ago when it was still in the early stages, but now it’s almost ready for trials…
Wireless industry ditching San Francisco for cell radiation law
It looks like the wireless industry will be taking its ball and going home, as the CTIA said it will be moving its annual wireless trade show out of San Francisco in response to the city passing an ordinance requiring retailers to display the amount of radiation cell phones emit. The city said the move…
Adults Are Guilty of Driving and Texting, Too
If you think driving and text messaging is a huge mistake committed only by teens, you are sorely mistaken. Or perhaps you know that it’s not limited to youngsters because you’re an adult and you’re constantly LOLing on your phone while behind the wheel yourself. Shame on you! We’ve all seen the horrific public service…
Tawkon Estimates BlackBerry Brain-Frying
Remember that iPhone app that was attempting to tell you what level of radiation the phone was emitting? Tawkon was rejected by Apple for iTunes, but RIM is totally cool with it being in the BlackBerry App World, where you can now download it for $9.99. Essentially, Tawkon assesses how weak your signal is, distance…
Must Read: The mobile phone industry is covering up data about radiation
Gentlemen’s Quarterly (GQ) isn’t the first publication that comes to mind when you think hard about hard hitting investigative journalism, but Christopher Ketcham, with support from the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, wrote up close to 4500 words about mobile phone radiation that goes through the entire history of the topic; from how it…
Tawkon measures iPhone radiation, won’t be approved by Apple
I think it’s a crying shame that Tawkon’s iPhone application won’t be allowed in the App Store because it seems like a well-crafted program that could find a large audience. I’m not too concerned about my cell phone’s radiation but I know a lot of people are. According to Tawkon’s technology page, the app uses an…
Cell phones may get cancer warning labels in Maine
The Health and Human Services Committee is proposing a bill that will require handset manufacturers to put risk of cancer warnings on mobile phones in Maine. There have long been reports that cell phone radiation can cause brain cancer, especially in small children. Tests on the matter are usually a mixed bag, that do not…
San Francisco may be the first city in America to require mobile phone radiation levels to be displayed
Mobiles: Do they cause cancer, or are they harmless? Every few weeks a study comes out that says mobile phones will kill you and your sperm count, and then a few days later a paper gets published that says everything is groovy. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is proposing that you, the people, should be…
Awesome Video: Welsh Police Department scares the living crap out of kids to get them to stop texting
Words can not describe the amount of awesome you’re about to witness. This video was made by the Gwent police department in Wales as a part of a 30 minute lesson on the dangers of texting and driving. It’s obviously fake, and a lot of money went into this. The results speak for themselves: [Via:…
Survey says: 1 in 5 American teenagers sent pictures of their privates to people
Harris Interactive interviewed 655 teenagers in the USA between the ages of 13 to 18 and asked them if they sent “sexually suggestive, nude or nearly nude photos” via MMS or email. The answer doesn’t come as a surprise, 1 in 5 said yes. I think that is quite low actually. If I think of…