Iphone Radiation Research Paper

634 Words2 Pages

Over eighty-seven percent of people in the United States have a phone. It has been proven that electronics give off radiation. The ultraviolet blue light emitted by the technology can be very harmful to your eyes. Technology is very harmful to the human body.
The technology that we use everyday emits harmful radiation in our body. The closer the device is to your body, the more radiation your body will absorb. Just because you hold your device away from yourself, you may still be close to someone else's device and radiation. The legal limit for how much radiation a phone can emit is 1.60 W/Kg. The maximum radiation that a Samsung phone emits is 1.59 W/Kg. The minimum radiation amount is 1.15 W/Kg. The maximum radiation that an Apple phone emits is 1.25 W/Kg. The minimum radiation amount is 1.08.W/Kg. Every Samsung phone emits 0.30 W/Kg more radiation than Apple phone. The lowest amount of radiation emitted by a device is .18 W/Kg, the device is the VeryKool RS90. The radiation that is in the phones can cause DNA defects. …show more content…

There is a known disease that is caused when a laptop or heated electronic burns the skin. The disease is called Erythema Ab Igne but it is more commonly known as Toasted Skin Syndrome. Toasted Skin Syndrome can lead to cancer, but it is rare. 20-29 year-old adults use their phones the most. Ninety percent of those sleep with or near their phones. For 20-29 year-old adults, the number of people with cancer per 100,000 went from two to four. The blue-violet light emitted from technology has the potential to put people at greater risk of muscle degeneration, which is a leading cause of blindness. Fifty-five percent of phone users say that they struggle with eye problems or headaches that are caused by the blue light in the technology that they

Open Document