Subject:  "Safer" phones (Royds).
Date:     Mon, 18 Dec 2000 054454 -0600
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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........From EMF-L......

Wellll....  Lookee here!!  (Quote) The U.S. military AND American 
scientists (close quote) have developed a "new" biochip to make your
cell phone "safer"!!!  

Now -- how come they are the very people who have been telling us for 
so long that THERE IS NO PROBLEM TO WORRY ABOUT WITH CELL PHONES???!!!

Still -- the "transmitting" gadget described below has the smell of 
SNAKE OIL to me.......  (With all due respects to our friend Dr. Ted
Litovitz, who is described as the inventor of the chip......????)

There is just something about this report that does not "ring true"
to me......???

Cheerio.....guru......
http://emfguru.com

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: "Safer" phones
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 07:40:13 -0000
From: "John Royds" 
To: 
References: <3A3D02B5.66BFFCE@emfguru.com>

Roy:

Yesterday's Observer -- a UK Sunday broadsheet ran this story on a chip to
make phones "safer".  You can find it at
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,412437,00.html

I have pasted it below, best wishes,

John Royds
Timmore House
Newcastle
Greystones
Co. Wicklow
Republic of Ireland
tel/fax:  +353-1-281 9283
email:  royds@esatclear.ie

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US microchip to make mobile phones safer

Special report: mobile phone fears

Nick Paton Walsh
Sunday December 17, 2000

Worries about radiation from mobile phones may be over thanks to a new
device developed by American scientists and the US military due to go on
sale in Britain within months.

The BioChip, a tiny microchip that fits into the battery of the mobile
phone, makes safe the signals created during a phone call that experts say
can damage the cells of the brain. Mobile phones emit an electrical impulse
whose strong, regular rhythm has been proved to cause serious stress in cell
walls. The BioChip produces another impulse which disrupts the rhythm,
stopping stress in the cells. 'The chip emits a weak electromagnetic impulse
which mimicks the natural impulse that the cell is used to,' said the chip's
manufacturer, Dr Thomas Magnussen. 'The impulse is engineered so that it
prevents the cells from picking up the regular rhythm coming from the phone
signal.'

More than half of British adults use mobile phones, and for years there have
been fears over their safety. The Department of Health recently asked that
phones sold in the run-up to Christmas should carry pamphlets asking adults
to use them for no more than 20 minutes, and that children should use them
only in an emergency.

The BioChip is the first device to offer a safer mobile phone since it was
suggested this year that hands-free sets might concentrate the radiation on
the user and worsen any possible health risks.

'The effects on cells of electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones are
quite disturbing and well defined,' said Magnussen. 'The body's cells go
into a state of shock. It's the same effect as if toxic chemicals were
introduced to the cell.'

The chip, powered by the phone battery, emits a weaker impulse when the
phone is transmitting signals. A hundred thousand are already on sale in
California, and will be on sale in the UK from next March. The chip raises
the cost of a battery by around a third. 'The BioChip is the result of 14
years of research begun by the US Army,' said Magnussen. 'They were
concerned about the effects of radio telephones in their soldiers' helmets.'

Magnussen, who runs the EMX Corporation in San José, California, cites
research by four universities - three American and one Danish - all of which
support the idea that phone signals put cells into a state of shock. The
technique the BioChip uses has been endorsed over 10 years by five
universities - in Colorado, West Ontario, Columbia, Washington State and the
Catholic University in Washington DC. Professor Ted Leitovitz of the
Catholic University invented the chip after he was given $4 million by the
US military to research the problem over four years.

British sales of the BioChip will provide a reliable gauge as to how safe
the public feel about mobile phones. The Federation of Electronics Industry,
which represents the interests of phone manufacturers, last week denied
there were any clear effects of phone radiation on the human body, citing a
recent report by the World Health Organisation.

nick.walsh@observer.co.uk


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