Ah, the humble mobile phone. Has humanity ever invented a more distrusted technology?
These little knobbly, bleepy bricks of controversy have, over the past few years, been accused of causing hearing loss, thumb strains, car crashes, spurious 999 calls, disruption of birds’ migration patterns, memory loss, and male infertility; encouraging children to look at pornography; increasing the risk of being struck by lightning… not to mention triggering the occasional lethal outburst. An impressive list for what is, basically, a small portable radio transmitter [added the word 'transmitter' for clarity, since a reader pointed out that mobiles broadcast and receive, whereas radios receive only - HS 7/5/08]. Read the rest of this entry »
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