Is it bad to have a cellphone near you (especially your head) when you sleep?

[itjw]

Eventually we'll find out that EVERYTHING causes cancer in some way shape or form...

If you don't do whatever you want, all the time, all while not giving a crap what everyone thinks, life just might pass you by.

I don't know any product liability lawyers personally, but the fact that we are heading rapidly towards 50% iPhone adoption in the US means there is a HUGE potential area for class actions of some sort. All it's going to take is one illness/disease/problem being semi attributable to the iPhone and then KA-CHING.

Flappy Bird maybe? Snappy Safari Syndrome (SSS)?

God bless the USA

 

[Altis]

Flappy Bird maybe? Snappy Safari Syndrome (SSS)?

Most likely eye damage from iOS-Solar-flare

OP, it likely isn't good for you to have the cellular enabled while it's that close to your head for ~8 hours of sleep time.

At the very least, disable cell data so it's just the phone antenna.

But really, what's it worth? If it caused a problem at some point, it likely wouldn't have been worth it. You can always pick up a used device (iPod, iPhone) and use that for your sleeping aid, while keeping your active phone at least a few feet away

 

[zorinlynx]

Radio waves such as what the iPhone transmits are non-ionizing radiation and are thus harmless.

 

[JackieInCo]

If there was any danger, I think my brain would be cottage cheese by now.I'm always falling asleep with two phones and my iPad next to me. When I leave, i usually have two phones on me as well.

 

[magilla]

I have to have it on for work

Yeah, but do you HAVE to SLEEP on the dumb thing? Low transmitters that they are, I'm sure NO cell phone manufacturer ever went through the trouble of beta testing their equipment by having a test group sleep on it. How would you ever know the results? It's not like one day you're IQs 160 and the next you're a drooling idiot because you slept on your iPhone.

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If there was any danger, I think my brain would be cottage cheese by now.I'm always falling asleep with two phones and my iPad next to me. When I leave, i usually have two phones on me as well.

I'll bet if you put a couple of pieces of photographic sheet film down (remember THAT stuff) and laid down on it then developed it, you'd end up with a nice aura exposure.

Besides, you said "... next to me." The OP said he slept ON his. How dependent are we REALLY becoming on technology that we can't be "out of touch" with the universe for at least a couple hours of sleep?

 

[acfusion29]

so many paranoid people these days

 

[magilla]

I have it beside my pillow when I sleep by my head I don't see any changes but feel more dumb now.

Hmmm ... you "... have it beside my pillow when I sleep by my head..." you mean you actually disconnect your head when you sleep? Me ... i just turn my head onto "sleep" mode and lie there with my eyes wide open until I "wake from sleep mode." Scares the bejezus out of my current girlfriend.

Besides, how would you gauge feel[ing] "more dumb now"? Can't do multi-dimensional quadratic equations anymore? Having trouble with doing the Fibonacci sequence past 64 digits?

 

[magilla]

Sleeping with a transmitter pressed against your head every night doesn't sound like the best idea. Maybe with a tin foil hat.....

Why not just put the PHONE into a tin foil pocket when he/she sleeps with it? Then all they'd have to worry about is rolling over during the night and chewing on the tin foil packet with their metal fillings!

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If there was any danger, I think my brain would be cottage cheese by now.I'm always falling asleep with two phones and my iPad next to me. When I leave, i usually have two phones on me as well.

Maybe you could rig up the two phones as a kind of headset and rig the eyePad up in front of your face as a virtual reality screen. Then just play the soothing sounds of the ocean through the phones and have a looping video clip of the ocean playing on the eyePad. Ocean waves crashing/breaking against the shore, Tahitian seascapes gently rolling back and forth ... all you'd need to add is a bucket of warm water by your bedside for you to stick you hand into and you'd never get any sleep running back and forth to the bathroom all night long.