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Lead isn't particularly effective at stopping microwaves (the stuff that comes out of laptops); a copper sheet would work better. |
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Of course, there are all the plasticizers and random chemicals involved in making the laptop, which might be messing with your hormone balance and so forth. Not that laptops are any worse in this regard than, say, a new car. |
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Rods, just being near a warm object will bathe you in a wide spectrum of uncontrollable and constant radio emission. Blackbody radiation, don't'cha know. |
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I should say that I doubt laptops have any real harmful radiations. Cell phones, perhaps: your head, next to a cell phone antenna, does pick up more energy from that antenna than from all other radio sources combined; I don't know of any strong evidence of health effects, but I'm cautious anyway. Old CRTs, yes, some of those were bad for you. |
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From what I've seen, the world could be a better place if some individuals were sterilised (by whatever means). Keep using that laptop on your lap! Fry the taddies before they get a chance to do any damage to the planet. |
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Hmmm... interesting... i didn't think that any computer component had anything to do with any type of radiation or etc... but if the laptops have 'em should i worry about my desktop computer? and what is this that i hear that using your cell phone around a computer has the potential to damage the computer in someway? |
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CAN ANY ONE TELL ME WHERE I CAN BUY THET PROTECTIVE LEAD MAT FOR LAPTOPS? READ MSG AUGUST 12 2001. Thanks. I was searching the net for this exact reason. ("cancer protection from laptops" typed on yahoo). When I spend over two hours using my laptop or that of my job I get chest aches. Sometimes they can become quite severe. I remember when I was doing an essay which took me all night long I was hurting tromendously inbetween my chest and belly. Exactly where my laptop was placed on the table where I was working. Someone could say that I should sit properly and stuff but that is not the reason - when I work on a normal computer or when I cover my laptop with e.g. a couple of magazines, I do not experience such effects. I think it is a matter of the sensitivity of each body. For instance I can talk on my mobile for hours without feeling anything while a friend of mine has problems with each side of his head he attaches his phone to. If he talks for over 10 mins on one ear it annoys him to reuse his phone from that ear for a second phone call. Others felt strangely near a ship's radar, others did not. I am sure though that antenna's for mobile phones do a lot of harm. And lets not have that reasoning "there are so many transmissions, who cares for another one.." |
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wiml said : Lead isn't particularly effective at stopping microwaves (the stuff that comes out of laptops); a copper sheet would work better. If the laptop really makes you sick and you suspect EM radiation, try blocking it with some aluminum foil. Cover part of the laptop or make an apron or something |
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