NOTE:
This is the correct
AegisGuard™
product to use with
wired and air-tube headsets.
Click here if you have a wireless headset, hearing aid or cochlear implant processor.
If you must use a phone
while driving, the use of a hands free headset in an automobile is a great
idea and required in many places by law. If you are not using your
cellular or cordless phone protected with AegisGuard™ LS Radiation Shields, it is also sensible to increase the
distance between you and the phone by using a headset. But as Aegis
first reported in 1998, if you think using a wired, air-tube or wireless headset is safer than holding
a phone against your ear, think again.
AegisGuard™
Wire Radiation Shields for wired and air-tube headsets
(headset not included)
are proven to be the most effective
shielding solution available for these types of headsets.
The
ABC news show 20/20 aired their first broadcast about cell phone radiation and
SAR safety standards in 1999. During the broadcast, a wired headset
was attached to a cell phone and SAR tests revealed a reduction in
radiation emissions from the phone's earpiece. Amazingly, the emissions
from the headset earpiece and wire were not measured.
In December, 2000, the
British government reversed their endorsement advising consumers to use
wired and air-tube headsets as safety devices. This occurred after they discovered cell phone
headsets can channel more than three times the amount of radiation into
the head when compared to holding a phone against the ear.
AegisGuard™ Headset
Wire Radiation Shields
for wired and air-tube headsets
(headset not included)
are proven to be the most effective
shielding solution available for these types of headsets. They fit
virtually all cell and cordless phone headset
wires, do not contain Nickel or
MDF,
and are easily installed without tools.
AegisGuard™ Headset Wire Shields provide greater protection than ferrites,
also known as ferrite beads.
Most ferrites
function at frequencies between 1 KHz. to 1 GHz. and it is important to
understand that cellular phones operate at frequencies above 1 GHz.
Ferrites are commonly used on 50 to 60 Hz. AC power cords and in
the circuitry of electronic equipment to prevent unwanted outside radiation
frequency interference (RFI), also known as noise, from penetrating the
wire and interfering with other
components within the equipment.
Ferrites are not designed, or intended, to be
near the body and are never used for shielding people because their electromagnetic absorption properties are
significantly affected by environmental and operating conditions,
including
temperature, pressure, field strength, frequency and time. They
do not provide any protection whatsoever from cellular phone radiation when using a
headset because they can only prevent radiation frequencies between 1 KHz. to
1 GHz. from entering the
wire, thus having no effect upon the frequencies generated by a cellular
or cordless phone from traveling up the wire.
Ferrites are widely used in the electronics industry because in addition to
their low cost (less than US $1.00), they also offer high
magnetic permeability that concentrates and reinforces magnetic
field and high electrical resistance, limiting the amount of electric
current flow in the ferrite. Their specifications are always presented as
resistance (in OHMS) and since they cannot limit the amount of radiation
flow, they are never used for applications where a stringent degree of
component radiation shielding effectiveness is required. |
AegisGuard™ Headset Wire
Shields prevent up to 98% of a cell phone's radiation frequencies from being
transferred through a headset wire.
- Learn
why the British government
discontinued endorsing the use of headsets as safety devices.
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