Any heath hazard with Bluetooth?

[Brjlk]

Some people believe that cellphones can be hazardous to health. Bluetooth is another form of electromagnetic waves, but more powerful.

So is Bluetooth safe for health?

John

[palmIIIxe]

Yeah I want to know too. BT and wifi, especially for children health.

[Brjlk]

Yeah I want to know too. BT and wifi, especially for children health.

I did a Goggle search for "bluetooth health hazard"
Many many articles on that. Have not read them yet.

John

[Cyker]

Probably about as safe as the emissions from microwave ovens, CRTs, radio, lights, CPUs, monitors, switching power supplies....

[Brjlk]

Probably about as safe as the emissions from microwave ovens, CRTs, radio, lights, CPUs, monitors, switching power supplies....

This articles advises us to be cautious amout mobile phone, especially for children under 8.
http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/05/04/26/

Some extract:
Late last year, the BBC reported that a European Union-funded four-year REFLEX Project (Risk Evaluation of Potential Environmental Hazards from Low Frequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure Using Sensitive in vitro Methods) study, coordinated by the German research group Verum, had determined that “radio waves from mobile phones do harm body cells and damage DNA,” although more work was needed to see the actual effect of the phones on health.

They found that, after being exposed to electromagnetic fields, the cells showed a significant increase in DNA damage which could not always be repaired by the cell.

"The rate of death from brain cancer among handheld phone users was higher than the rate of brain cancer death among those who used on-handheld phones that were away from their head;

This is about the mobile phone.
Another article describes Bluetooth as emitting much less radiation.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2005/tc20050427_5651.htm


John

[Cyker]

I take such studies with a grain of salt because they don't disclose all the circumstances of the test. What wattage of transmission did they use? Range from subject? Gain of of the transmittor? All this stuff is important.

TBH, it's not worth worrying about. I mean, if it is harmless then fine. If it's harmful in some sort of reliably reproducable common way, as opposed to some extremly remote chance under certain precice circumstances, then we're all ****ed but still can't do anything about it anyway.

We could destroy all mobile phones and masts, but what about the other stuff? For years we've had high-power TV transmittor towers, radio transmission towers, trans-continental satellite links, GPS transmissions, AC electricity pylons, neighbourhood step-down transformers, and a myriad of electronic devices too numerous for me to even contemplate (CRT monitors and TV's anyone?)

All these things produce low-level radiation of some sort. Pretty much *every* electronic device produces some low-level EM radiation.

Whether it's harmful or not I couldn't say, but any harm it does appears to be of little significance or I'm sure there'd be more marked evidence than the current rather flimsy and biased tests we've seen from both sides of the argument.

Personally, I'm more worried about all the crap being pumped into our air and water supply.

[Legodude522]

Its probably very safe or else the FCC wouldn't allow it.

Does anyone remember those old IBM green/orange screen monitors? Those are probably much more dangerous than bluetooth or a cell phone. They stopped making them for that. Yeah I got one.

[Brjlk]

Its probably very safe or else the FCC wouldn't allow it.

Does anyone remember those old IBM green/orange screen monitors? Those are probably much more dangerous than bluetooth or a cell phone. They stopped making them for that. Yeah I got one.

I do take measures to reduce my mobile phone use. At the office, I switch it off, so people will call me on my analog phone. Only when I am out that I switch it on.

John

[Cyker]

Its probably very safe or else the FCC wouldn't allow it.
I'd take that with a grain of salt too :D