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  • Hey, are you worried about your headphones piping radiation into your head?
  • IHN
    Full Member

    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.

    footflaps
    Full Member

    No…

    MSP
    Full Member

    3.5mm jack connects to any standard headphone port

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

    senorj
    Full Member

    Dr Dre ,in the defiant ones, had wires on his.
    Good enough for him….

    croe
    Free Member

    I wasn’t until now…

    sirromj
    Full Member

    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.

    oldtennisshoes
    Full Member

    Same sort as they use in an MRI scanner IIRC.

    CountZero
    Full Member

    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.

    thisisnotaspoon
    Free Member

    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.

    andytherocketeer
    Full Member

    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.

    aphex_2k
    Free Member

    3.5mm jack connects to any standard headphone port

    Standard in 1989

    funkmasterp
    Full Member

    No worry me. All good phonehead for years, no bad side effects

    DezB
    Free Member

    I actually put my head in the microwave oven to get my fix of directly piped microwaves. Product is wasted on me.

    martinhutch
    Full Member

    My head is a ‘neutral space’ already, so I’m not worried.

    muddy@rseguy
    Full Member

    I wonder if they also do an anti radiation intercom system that’s two old tin cans connected by a piece of string?

    footflaps
    Full Member

    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….

    footflaps
    Full Member

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

    Insects have antennae.

    The plural of antenna is antennas….

    CountZero
    Full Member

    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.

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    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”

    IHN
    Full Member

    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.

    cookeaa
    Full Member

    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…

    DezB
    Free Member

    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)

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