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[Closed] Hey, are you worried about your headphones piping radiation into your head?

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 IHN
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Then worry no more!

https://www.scottsofstow.co.uk/sos/skimguard-anti-radiation-air-tube-headphones

🙂

To be fair, it's pretty poor, it's essentially scare mongering to a vulnerable audience.


 
Posted : 07/07/2019 6:41 pm
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No...


 
Posted : 07/07/2019 7:15 pm
 MSP
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3.5mm jack connects to any standard headphone port

Good job I am an apple fanboi, their unsophisticated marketing is wasted on me.


 
Posted : 07/07/2019 8:06 pm
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Dr Dre ,in the defiant ones, had wires on his.
Good enough for him....


 
Posted : 07/07/2019 8:29 pm
 croe
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I wasn't until now...


 
Posted : 07/07/2019 8:48 pm
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it’s essentially scare mongering to a vulnerable audience.

No it looks like an ad out of the Weekend bit of the Daily Mail so I trust it fully and the Trustpilot score confirms I'm right to do so.

I don't care that the £10 saving I make is then taken back in delivery charges, my trust in the product is worth it.


 
Posted : 07/07/2019 9:11 pm
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Same sort as they use in an MRI scanner IIRC.


 
Posted : 07/07/2019 9:17 pm
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Piping microwave radiation right into your head! Bullshit marketing aimed at fleecing the paranoid.
I’d like to see the scientific explanation for microwave radiation being carried along a headphone cable.


 
Posted : 07/07/2019 10:20 pm
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Dunno what the reasons are. I always assumed it was hygiene and cost but the headsets for walkie talkies are usually air tube earpieces.

Piping microwave radiation right into your head! Bullshit marketing aimed at fleecing the paranoid.
I’d like to see the scientific explanation for microwave radiation being carried along a headphone cable.

You do know you're probably typing that on a device that takes microwaves from the air, turns them into electrical signals down a bit of copper, processes them and sends a signal back up bit or wire where they go into the air........

And lots of radio equipment does use the audio wiring as a second antennae.

No idea if it's something to worry about though.


 
Posted : 07/07/2019 10:37 pm
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And lots of radio equipment does use the audio wiring as a second antennae.

Most mp3 etc. players will use the headphone lead as an external aerial

No idea if it’s something to worry about though.

The radiation comes from the transmitter, not the receiver, and is passing thru your head anyway. The headphone lead will steal a little bit of that radiation and pump it in to the phone/mp3player.


 
Posted : 07/07/2019 11:30 pm
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3.5mm jack connects to any standard headphone port

Standard in 1989


 
Posted : 08/07/2019 6:36 am
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No worry me. All good phonehead for years, no bad side effects


 
Posted : 08/07/2019 7:36 am
 DezB
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I actually put my head in the microwave oven to get my fix of directly piped microwaves. Product is wasted on me.


 
Posted : 08/07/2019 8:40 am
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My head is a 'neutral space' already, so I'm not worried.


 
Posted : 08/07/2019 8:46 am
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I wonder if they also do an anti radiation intercom system that's two old tin cans connected by a piece of string?


 
Posted : 08/07/2019 9:09 am
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I wonder if they also do an anti radiation intercom system that’s two old tin cans connected by a piece of string?

You think that's safe! The whole thing acts as a massive antenna for cosmic rays, piping them directing into you....


 
Posted : 08/07/2019 9:13 am
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And lots of radio equipment does use the audio wiring as a second antennae.

Insects have antennae.

The plural of antenna is antennas....


 
Posted : 08/07/2019 9:14 am
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And lots of radio equipment does use the audio wiring as a second antennae.

That’s to receive, not to transmit, which was the point I was making, there’s no microwave radiation involved when listening to music being played by any given device.


 
Posted : 08/07/2019 9:15 am
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Reminds me of the chat I had with a hippy yoga teacher friend of mine last week after she re-posted facebook scare stories about there being no insects alive within a 1 mile radius of a 5G transmitter "due to the microwave radiation"


 
Posted : 08/07/2019 9:43 am
 IHN
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And lots of radio equipment does use the audio wiring as a second antennae.

Insects have antennae.
The plural of antenna is antennas….

And it should be 'second antenna' anyway.


 
Posted : 08/07/2019 9:50 am
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No point for me I'm already wearing a tinfoil hat inside a custom Faraday cage lined helmet and I've blocked my ears up to keep out the sound of fake news...


 
Posted : 08/07/2019 10:01 am
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there’s no microwave radiation involved when listening to music

Oh, our resident scientist has spoken! So why does this product exist then eh? Why are music fans going round with 2 heads and 7 ears? Answer me that?!

( 😉 , just in case)


 
Posted : 08/07/2019 10:08 am

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