Grab your tinfoil hat, kids, we're talking about cellphone radiation. Yes, those invisible waves that cellphones emit that can leave you with innumerable amounts of complications, such as...well... I'm not really sure.
To put it bluntly, the studies on cellphone radiation are murky at best. Sure, we get the occasional studies suggesting health risks, but there's nothing concrete enough to warrant real cause for alarm. Unless, of course, you use the phone to break someone's face like that old Sprint commercial from three years ago.
In case you'd like to keep radiation levels as low as possible, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) just published the results of a ten-month research on cellphone radiation emissions. What they did is take an accounting of all handsets currently active in the US market for 2010 and measured the amount of scary invisible transmissions they put out.
The result is the Cell Phone Radiation Guide, a searchable database of mobile phones that ranks each one according to their level of radiofrequency radiation. According to EWG, these streams of particles come out whenever you use your handset to send and receive data, such as when calling and texting (they don't say it, but I assume it emits stuff when you access 3G and Wi-Fi, too). Sucks for you, bandwidth-hogging iPhone users, tee-hee. Oh wait, that's me.
If you're curious, the Sanyo Katana ranked the lowest in the study, with the Blackberry 8820, the Motorola i880 and the Palm Pixi taking the top three spots. We're not sure how real the dangers are, but if you want to be a mutant, you know the top handsets to consider.
Check out the Cell Phone Radiation Guide from the link below.
[Cell Phone Radiation Guide, Photo via Gizmodo]
