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Health Concerns

Not a big concern but I did get some contact dermatitis from the metal closure button in the Sport Band. Stainless is usually OK for me but I definitely got an itchy rash where the button sits on my wrist by the end of Day 2.

I just put a little piece of Scoth tape over it to resolve it.
 
teamzissou00 said:
Not the best source, but listening to Robin's News on Howard Stern,...
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Howard Stern...being neurotic? You don't say. Meanwhile his whole career has been him being stuffed in small rooms, under giant antenna with as much or many times greater EMF from his equipment than a cell phone user or watch wearer will ever get. And he still flies, which results in still more actual ionizing radiation than cell phone or watch users receive from using their devices. Yeah about that, remember, his show is for entertainment, and that's about it.
 
teamzissou00 said:
Not the best source, but listening to Robin's News on Howard Stern, she read a new article about the dangers of these devices. Howard refuses to wear the watch because of cancer fears, and never talks on his phone without the speaker phone or hands-free. He also wont put the phone in his pocket based on what the article said.

When I looked up articles, it shocked me that they are saying the ipad gives off more radiation than the iphone.

I didn't tape it or anything, so I'm not sure the source of her article, but it made me wonder about a few things:

1) Are you concerned with your young child (2+) using your ipad or iphone? Do you set limits due to this fear?
2) Are you concerned about the watch causing cancer?
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1) No I am not. I do not have any young children.
2) Absolutely not. This isn't the 90's.
 
Bo31210 said:
Still waiting on the rat tool explanation The tape camera thing has me perplexed LOL
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In the sec ops world RAT usually means Remote Administration Tool, for accessing others computers without the knowledge.. getting access to cameras as well.
 
Stern is paranoid.

I like him, and think he's reasonable, but I've read some stuff where he overreacted, IMHO. He's just short of washing his hands every ten minutes (washing five times a day is actually a pretty good idea).

The Watch's use of power in general, is so reduced for battery life that health risks are negligible
 
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Glideslope said:
I've always used a belt clip, and never use my iPad on my lap. Always a hard surface. :apple:
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Even setting aside potential doses of UV (are you SURE that shielding is working?) and sleep altering blue light that we all get from fluorescent back lit displays that we seem to accept as safe to view for many hours each day, the greatest long term health concern, IMO, of these devices are the bad ergonomics that go along with their casual usage. Ask someone with a repetitive motion injury for how much fun they can be. Otherwise stated, we probably won't see the one that gets us coming.
 
silverblack said:
People, if you have any science background, read the damn article!
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-you-hear-me-now/

The idea of "Radiation" (meaning electromagnetic radiation) causes cancers applies to short wavelengths radiation such as UV, x-ray, or gamma rays from radioactive decay. These wavelengths have sufficient energies to break the molecular bonds in our bodies, including DNA. Hence, the result of cancers.

The "radiation" (mean waves, rays) used communication have much longer wavelengths, and therefore much lower energies. They cannot cause the molecular bonds in our bodies to break. At most, these long wavelengths will cause the molecules to vibrate or rotate faster to generate heat. But this is the same effect as being in a hot tub or sauna.
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^^This. I have a degree in physics, and we understand a great deal about electromagnetic radiation. Simply standing in the sun is much worse for you than having a cellphone taped to your head, if we are comparing types and intensities of radiation exposure. This has been studied extensively, went through a brief period of misinformation in the late 90's, and was studied even more vigorously thereafter. There is nothing WiFi or bluetooth or voice/data networks can do that even compares to just walking outside. You have nothing to worry about.
 
I have zero concerns whatsoever that the Watch will impact my health, nor am I concerned about the wifi in my home or the microwave transmission from my phone or cellular iPad.

And this is from 20 years of work in radiation biology administering medical radiation of all types to both sick and well patients. Yes, it's true as with all things in science, we don't know what we don't know... however in this, we know. The energies produced by these incredibly low-power devices are so small compared to natural background radiation, the radon in your basement, the microwave and radio emissions surrounding us 24/7, and that giant fusion reactor in the sky, that any we could add with a Bluetooth watch or an iPad is a proverbial drop in an ocean.

I'm also a big fan of Howard Stern, but insofar as this (and many other health-related concerns), he's tremendously overreacting in his own admittedly OCD way.
 
DynaFXD said:
Howard Stern...being neurotic? You don't say. Meanwhile his whole career has been him being stuffed in small rooms, under giant antenna with as much or many times greater EMF from his equipment than a cell phone user or watch wearer will ever get. And he still flies, which results in still more actual ionizing radiation than cell phone or watch users receive from using their devices. Yeah about that, remember, his show is for entertainment, and that's about it.
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His generation is all dropping dead from the smoking they did their whole lives. Pardon me if I don't care about his fears.
 
dontwalkhand said:
But but but they shouldn't be flying them, the watches in the plane are getting radiation which means it transfers to me and it may give me cancer!
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Not to mention, what if the chemtrail leaves some residual chemicals on the watch?? :p
 
zmunkz said:
Not to mention, what if the chemtrail leaves some residual chemicals on the watch?? :p
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It's all just so silly. Every day he gets in his car and drives to work and puts his life at far greater risk, but he's worried about the unproven dangers of electronics.
 
DynaFXD said:
Even setting aside potential doses of UV (are you SURE that shielding is working?) and sleep altering blue light that we all get from fluorescent back lit displays that we seem to accept as safe to view for many hours each day, the greatest long term health concern, IMO, of these devices are the bad ergonomics that go along with their casual usage. Ask someone with a repetitive motion injury for how much fun they can be. Otherwise stated, we probably won't see the one that gets us coming.
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Agreed. There is much we don't know. That is why I have never owned a Microwave Oven. ;)
 
I'm in the health field with knowledge about radiopharmaceuticals so I can shed some light on the issue. Basically everything gives off radiation. Radiation comes down to earth from space and some environmental features absorb more radiation than others so even depending on where you live affects your radiation exposure. Curie is the measurement of how much radiation something gives off and rem is how much your body absorbs from a certain object. Staying below 620-640 millirem is not shown to cause any harm or increase your risk of cancer. Your typical X-RAY at a hospital is between 10-40 millirem. Using your TV and computer every day is 1-2 millirem exposure annually. A old Casio watch with numbers that illuminate at night is 0.6 millirem annually. I would guess that someone who uses a iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, and computer does not absorb more than 10-12 millirem annually, and this is being extremely generous with those numbers. So using all of these devices would only contribute at most 1.9% of your annual safe limit of radiation exposure.

To put this into more perspective, based on where you live, environmental exposure leads to 16-68 millirem of radiation in the U.S.

The devices you use on a daily basis won't do anything to you. Being a flight attendant and being up in the air is more risky from a radiation standpoint than using your devices daily.

Hope this helps.
 
It's not the small things but how many we are surrounded by.

I keep my iPhone and iPad as far away from myself as possible when not in use.

We turn our home WiFi off at night and phones go into Airplane mode.

Airplane mode with cell signal is low or if we are going on a walk.

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As far as the Watch is concerned, I will be using bluetooth only as it is a far less concern than Wifi.

Will any of this prevent cancer or tumors or problems? Who knows. But we'd rather do the best we can. It's not about being neurotic, its about minimizing risks (which we do in other areas of our lives as well)
 
teamzissou00 said:
Not the best source, but listening to Robin's News on Howard Stern, she read a new article about the dangers of these devices. Howard refuses to wear the watch because of cancer fears, and never talks on his phone without the speaker phone or hands-free. He also wont put the phone in his pocket based on what the article said.

When I looked up articles, it shocked me that they are saying the ipad gives off more radiation than the iphone.

I didn't tape it or anything, so I'm not sure the source of her article, but it made me wonder about a few things:

1) Are you concerned with your young child (2+) using your ipad or iphone? Do you set limits due to this fear?
2) Are you concerned about the watch causing cancer?
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Personally, I'm waiting for Beetlejuice's review of the watch. Who me? Bababooey to y'all.

Back on topic, not restricting my kids to iOS devices. In fact, our almost 3 years old daughter, who has delayed speech, is using a special iPad assistive communication app to help her communicate more effectively. Apps like these and iPads are game changers in kids lives.
 
joonyaboy said:
It's not the small things but how many we are surrounded by.

I keep my iPhone and iPad as far away from myself as possible when not in use.

We turn our home WiFi off at night and phones go into Airplane mode.

Airplane mode with cell signal is low or if we are going on a walk.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As far as the Watch is concerned, I will be using bluetooth only as it is a far less concern than Wifi.

Will any of this prevent cancer or tumors or problems? Who knows. But we'd rather do the best we can. It's not about being neurotic, its about minimizing risks (which we do in other areas of our lives as well)
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Sounds more like not understanding the science more than anything...

Care to elaborate on the underlined?
 
joonyaboy said:
It's not the small things but how many we are surrounded by.

I keep my iPhone and iPad as far away from myself as possible when not in use.

We turn our home WiFi off at night and phones go into Airplane mode.

Airplane mode with cell signal is low or if we are going on a walk.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As far as the Watch is concerned, I will be using bluetooth only as it is a far less concern than Wifi.

Will any of this prevent cancer or tumors or problems? Who knows. But we'd rather do the best we can. It's not about being neurotic, its about minimizing risks (which we do in other areas of our lives as well)
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Yet you likely drive on the express way, drink milk or eat meat from cows treated with high-dose antibiotics and fly on airplanes (more ionizing radiation than you'll ever get from your wifi base station in a lifetime).

The reduction in exposure from your actions with your electronics is thousanths of a percentage compared to your average daily exposure from all the things you can't control.
 
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