Comments on: Can thinksound PVC-free headphones save me from my cell phone?

By: Iandanger

Iandanger — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:55:58 +0000

FYI, the radiation that comes from your phone is non-ionizing radiation, and there’s no evidence of harm from using them. The EU’s recent designation of “possibly carcinogenic” wasn’t based on any positive studies, and there’s no cellular damage from the energy produced by a cell phone, so there’s litte to no risk. Still, headphones are safer than holding a phone to your ear when driving etc :)

By: Cell Phone Radiation–am I being careful or paranoid? « It's Not Easy Being Green

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:09:06 +0000

[...] Beth at My Plastic Free Life had up a really good post a while ago about how we might reduce our exposure to cell phone radiation–pointing to the Environmental Working Group’s site telling the different radiation amounts emitted by different phones and giving tips for how to avoid as much radiation as you can. [...]

By: Lisa @Retro Housewife Goes Green

Lisa @Retro Housewife Goes Green — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 06:03:01 +0000

My mom has been worried about this since we got cell phones so I have using headsets for a long time. Now I’m just using the one that came with my iPhone. I also try and remember to put my phone in my purse and not in my pocket.

By: Lori Popkewitz Alper

Lori Popkewitz Alper — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:34:50 +0000

I am constantly thinking about the radiation from my phone-I’m on it a lot. I need to get a headset. Thanks so much for the review…..and the reminder that I shouldn’t keep putting it off.

By: EcoCatLady

EcoCatLady — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:02:43 +0000

OK… I’m sure this puts me in the category of fuddy duddy… but I just hate cell phones, and I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would willingly use one for anything but emergencies. I mean, I do have a pre-paid plan and a phone that’s for emergencies. It’s turned off unless I’m making a call (which I do about once every few months.) I couldn’t send or receive a text message if my life depended on it, and I haven’t any idea what my cell number is without looking it up.

I just don’t get it. Why does everybody want to bring their “personal sphere” with them wherever they go? Isn’t the point of going somewhere to be wherever it is that you went? And why in the world would anyone want to make it easier for people to reach them? I personally don’t want to be available to the world 24/7.

OK… I’ll shut up now.

I just think that it’s far more likely that someone’s cell phone will kill me – like perhaps the driver who hit me while I was riding my bike last summer because she was talking on a cell phone and forgot that she had waved me on – than it is that radiation from your phone will kill you.

By: Passion Purveyors

Passion Purveyors — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:57:33 +0000

You probably posted this info and I missed it. Where are the thinksound headphones made?

By: sunnysandiegan

sunnysandiegan — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:10:53 +0000

Interesting information!

I wonder how “airplane” mode effects all the variables…

I don’t use my phone much for calling or texting, but rather as a watch and alarm clock and calendar and camera and lots of other uses. (I like having the convenience of the phone built-in so I don’t have to carry more than one device and do use the phone, just not very often…less than 200 min a month and less than 25 texts a month.)

When I travel, I often put the phone on airplane mode so it stops searching constantly for a signal and conserves the battery. From what I’m reading, that practice may also reduce radiation.

By: Jen Henderson

Jen Henderson — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:50:57 +0000

Thanks so much, Beth. Just found my phone on the list and the radiation is quite high so I will be getting some headphones now.

Best,
Jen

By: peaJayFish

peaJayFish — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:33:52 +0000

Now I have a good excuse to be on speaker-phone, (Used Machinery, you are not alone; I can’t suffer ear buds either), and to prefer texting over talking. Sweet! Dismayed to find my phone emits fairly high. Dang. Well, I won’t be holding it to my ear anymore (much) or carrying it on my belt.
Thanks again for your excellent and informative articles, Beth!

By: Holly

Holly — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:04:56 +0000

Yikes! $89! Even with the generous 20% discount that’s beyond my budget. I guess I’ll have to stick with the painful and plastic earbuds+mic that came with my phone. They are lovely, though. (The ts02, not the tacky plastic ones.) The EWG website is full of useful info — thanks for the link.