| Through the long time, there have been so many | | | | making calls, fly Phone users can play games, listen to |
| rumors concerning the wellness risks of cell phones. | | | | mp3's, watch videos, text, and use instant messaging. |
| But we are a society that would almost rather die, | | | | Firefly Mobile said that its marketing research indicated |
| than give them up. That is an actual possibility, | | | | that there was a need for parents and children in this |
| according to modern search. Eleven different analyses | | | | age group, to be able to communicate easily. |
| have discovered that those who have used a cellular | | | | Disney Mobile also pointed younger kids, and |
| phone for ten years or long time are twice as likely to | | | | incorporated Disney characters, such as Mickey |
| develop tumors on a nerve connecting the ear to the | | | | Mouse and Winnie the Pooh into its phone designs, but |
| brain. According to Prof Kjell Mild, of Orebro University | | | | backed off of those plans in 2000, amid reports that |
| in Sweden, it takes a minimum of ten years, for this | | | | cell phone radiation may prove to be dangerous for |
| type of cancer to build up. Cell phone use has only | | | | children. (Some later research found cell phones to be |
| been widespread since the late 1990's, so some of the | | | | safe for all ages.) In 2005, Disney Mobile announced |
| serious health effects linked with mobile phones is only | | | | plans for a new line of cell phones, marketed for kids |
| now being discovered. There may be a connection | | | | as young as 8. Disney has recently announced, |
| between cell phone use and Parkinson's disease, as | | | | however, that it will discontinue its cellular phone |
| well as a correlation with Alzheimer's disease. But | | | | service to kids at the end of this year. |
| even a lot of bothering, is the fact that children's thinner | | | | A 2 minute cell phone call can change the electric |
| skulls may put them at an even bigger risk for | | | | activity of a child's brain for up to an hour afterward, |
| developing brain cancer. Some investigators warn that | | | | according to research by scientists at the Spanish |
| children should only use cell phones in emergency | | | | Neuro Diagnostic Research Institute in Marbella. They |
| situations. | | | | have theorized that these changes could result in |
| Some other study found that just five minutes | | | | impaired learning ability, and emotional and behavioral |
| exposure to cell phone signals caused human cells to | | | | problems. Dr. Gerald Highland, a government adviser in |
| split. Even though this occurs naturally when tissue | | | | the UK remarked, "We don't recognize all the answers |
| grows, it can also occur as a precursor to cancer. | | | | yet, but the alteration in brain waves could lead to |
| Cancers often appear when the body cannot prevent | | | | things like lack of concentration, amnesia, inability to |
| excessive growth and division of cells. Earlier research | | | | learn, and aggressive behavior." |
| in the United States in 2001, found that children's brains | | | | In the United Sates, Dr. George Carlo, an epidemiologist, |
| absorbed 50 to 70 per cent more radiation from hand | | | | was hired by the cell phone industry to prove that cell |
| held phones than adults, due to smaller skulls. In addition | | | | phones are safe. However, after 6 years of intensive |
| to, there would appear to be greater vulnerability to | | | | research, he came to the conclusion that cell phones |
| brain and neurological cancers, because their nervous | | | | are not safe. He also found that a child's developing |
| systems are still developing. | | | | skull and brain were adversely affected by the |
| Despite these findings, Firefly Mobile has projected a | | | | radiation emitted by the phones. In addition, he felt that |
| cell phone for kids, the fly Phone. It was produced for | | | | the blood brain barrier could be affected. This blood |
| smaller hands, and specifically targeted for children 8 to | | | | brain barrier prevents the invasion of toxins. He also |
| 12 years old. The phone is about the size of a small | | | | found that radio frequency radiation created a type of |
| pocket calculator, and comes furnished with parental | | | | genetic damage in human blood cells, known as a |
| controls. This enables parents to limit incoming and | | | | marker for cancer. |
| outgoing calls, and to restrict texting. In addition to | | | | |