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Coolest Gadget to Protect Kids from Cell Phone Radiation

June 29th, 2011. By AbiK

You cannot beat this one for its coolness. It’s retro, it’s comfortable to hold, it’s available in a rainbow of colors, and it’s relatively cheap ($29.99 at Amazon.com). And hell, Lenny Kravitz has been spotted using one on the street. In black, in case you’re wondering.

Ahh, but there’s more. The POP Phone—officially, the Native Union Moshi Moshi Pop Phone—has another benefit: it makes it possible to pull a cell phone away from your ear (and that cerebral mass that’s housed just behind the ear) thereby also pulling away that fearsome cell phone radiation that everyone’s been talking about. After all, that’s the greatest beef about cell phone radiation—that the need to hold a cell phone directly against your head doesn’t leave mush travel time or distance for those radiation waves to traverse they skip over to your brain.

Not that there haven’t been alternatives to the POP Phone—and the POP Phone’s been around for awhile, too. But tech gadgets like a Bluetooth earpiece must seem so”oh dad uses that in the car for work” and, therefore, the height of it’s-just-not-cool. Of course, an earpiece or earbuds do allow for that hands-free experience—but in my experience with kids, hands-free means their hands are somewhere else…

Like a steering wheel, and I’d rather my kids have their hands on some bigger, bulkier contraption that might force them to shut-up and drive vs. thinking they’re the kings of multi-tasking behind the wheel. Kids + distraction typically yields not much good—and until we have more stringent laws banning the use of cell phones, smart phones, and any other mobile device that encourages distracted driving, I’m all for phone calls that are more of a pain in the a$$ to make in the car.

Detractors of the POP phone tend to site the “where do you put it?” conundrum—as in, when you’ve ended the phone call. Used to be you’d “hang up the phone”, only there’s no place to hang. I have no doubt that between kids’ ingenuity and a few hot designers from Target, that problem won’t be a problem for long.

Tags: Amazon.com, Cell Phone Radiation, Hands-free Phone, Lenny Kravitz, Native Union Moshi Moshi, POP Phone
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