Cellphone Popcorns? Watch This!

Much have been said about handphones causing brain tumours. Do handphones really cause brain cancer? Are they safe? As increasing numbers of people give up land lines and use their handphones instead, these questions become more pressing - or at least, they should. But walk into any café these days and you'll see half the patrons chatting away on their mobiles; or just about anywhere now you'll see people engrossed in text-messaging or just talking on their fashion or nonfashion-phones. I for one find it most irritating when I hear a phone rings or someone speaks on the handphone whilst I'm enjoying a nice movie in the cinema!

Well.. watch these videos and judge for yourselves.








Notice that the popcorn kernels are surrounded by at least three cellphones with antennae pointed at the kernels. Kernels must be in middle of area so all cellphone antennae transmissions center on them.

It seems wise to be prudent about using your handphone. Use it only when you must, use the speakerphone if at all possible, and keep it far away from your body. Certainly, keep it out of your pants pocket next to anything you may value. You can invest in a relatively inexpensive product to shield you from radiation. Don't give a handphone to your kids if possible, until the results are in about long-term effects. And take a cue from a June 3 article in the New York Times that quotes three prominent neurosurgeons who recently appeared on Larry King Live.

Dr. Vini Khurana, an associate professor of neurosurgery at the Australian National University, says, "I use it on the speaker-phone mode. I do not hold it to my ear." His less-cautious colleague, Dr. Keith Black of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, says, "I think the safe practice is to use an earpiece so you keep the microwave antenna away from your brain."

I tend to agree that any device capable of popping corn (even as a joke) belongs nowhere near my little gray cells, lest my brain end up fried. Handphones may well be the addiction of our era. We won't give up the phone even though we suspect it might be bad for us, we want it above other toys, we want it attached to us every day, all day, and we get the shakes if we find ourselves without it.