Can a sticker make your cell phone safe?

Do you duck out of the room when a microwave’s cooking, but yak on your cell phone until it fries your ear and frontal lobe? You obsess about radiation but can’t live with a landline number alone.

Enter the Aulterra Neutralizer. It's been around for several years, but I first spotted it a neighborhood herbal store tonight. This little round $20 box  claims to block the radiation emanating from your mobile phone. The chunk of foam within serves as a bed for a little sticker. A crystal within the sticker’s ink is supposed to buffer the invisible radiation that threatens to cause cancer and mutate your DNA. Just slap the sticker on your new Nokia and fret no more about your own private Three Mile Island. And what’s good for your handheld is good for your TV, microwave, and computer too, says the company:

Man-made EMFs have a chaotic energy and different frequency than natural EMFs and can disrupt or distort organic energy patterns. It is precisely this ability to distort human energy patterns that causes artificial EMFs to be hazardous…Aulterra is a homeopathically activated combination of natural paramagnetic and diamagnetic elements which neutralize the effect of man-made EMF exposure on human DNA.

But Shampoo Science ranted earlier this year:

Apparently, any device which genuinely absorbed EMF would, by very definition, at some point become saturated and would no longer function. Unlike theirs. Well, I was unaware that you could fill anything up with radio waves. Be handy for taking to a desert island, I suppose.

There are other tools out there that supposedly block radiation, such as $15 ferrite beads. As usual, studies are mixed about the safety of mobile phones. If you fear some kind of Chernobyl fallout inside your skull, you might like this chart that ranks the radiation levels of popular mobile phones. Motorola models make up the top seven models that emit the most radiation, while an Audiovox smart phone gives radiophobics peace of mind. Would you spend a Jackson to try to ward off phone radiation?

Comments

[oakley frogskins]

then remembered that I'm not in high school anymore.

[alarms]

Great post! Hope to read more of your blog....

[bladder control]

I think a super special sticker will do!

Sam Nisbett