Is Your Wireless Network Dangerous?

The debate over the potential for our wireless toys to cause health problems in humans has raged since the first cell phones came on the scene a couple of decades ago. Personally I've wondered how it can be healthy to walk around with a source of electro-magnetic radiation clipped to my belt. But I worked in the cellular industry for several tears and the powers that be always siad there was no evidence that cellular emissions posed a health risk (notice the didn't come out and say it was safe, either). But then I'd sit down in front of my computer and my cell phone would start making some goofy noises come out of my speakers. Hmmm.

Now people are starting to ask the same questions about Wi-Fi. I caught this article in an e-newsletter today. It's not out-and-out proof that your wireless Internet will kill you, but it got me thinking. Again.

Look at all the sources of radiation that have appeared and proliferated in the last hundred years or so: AM/FM radio (and then a whole spectrum of radio from short wave to cellular and Wi-Fi), television, microwave and more. Maybe all this stuff just passes harmlessly through our bodies. But then again, when they give you a lead vest and hide behind a wall to X-Ray your teeth, you've got to wonder.

Find out more about different sources of radiation and what the mean to you here.