UK woman 'feels' wifi radiation

[UKMuFFiN]

Can't see this posted anywhere,

http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/27/h...s-dream-woman/

Crazy lady.

[IBM]

You'd think it was pretty easy to run tests on her to find out if she's telling the truth....

"Right Miss Figes, what can you feel?"

100 fingers - 802.11b
500 fingers - 802.11a
1000 fingers - 802.11g
Bloody pulp lying on floor - 802.11n

[UKMuFFiN]

[chrestomanci]

... God help her if she gets within 20 feet of a microwave oven while it is operating.

Serously, this whole thing sounds like the worst sort of junk science and paranoia. WiFi operates on the same band as microwave ovens, and while microwave ovens have sheilding, it is not perfect, and detectable amounts of microwaves can be detected using 2.4GHz band scanners.

Anyway, if she is senstive to radio transmitons in those bands, how is she arround bluetooth mobiles, cordless phone, baby monitors etc?

[MadduckUK]

i can hear crt tellys and monitors. perhaps its actually the sound of DEATH and we should ban them?

[Whiternoise]

My crt makes a very high pitch noise, not noticeable once up and running, but when the pc is POSTing, it's quite audible..

Surely if she can feel wifi waves, she is susceptible to just about every form of electromagnetic radiation?

[vicar]

You never know, i leave it to you budding scientists to prove her wrong. Real or not, once its in the ladys mind i don't see anyone convincing her its not dangerous or real.

[MadduckUK]

if she's right then she will probably die. problem solves itself?

[UKMuFFiN]

^ lol harsh, but fair.

[KBeee]

Let's face it, if Wireless Radio was invented now it'd be banned on the grounds that it MIGHT be dangerous.
I once saw a protestor arguing on BBC News about the "Dangers" of mobile phone masts near schools, while the Crystal Palace transmitter was in the background. The mobile phone company mouthpiece pointed out that the BBC mast was probably putting about 100X more energy into the kids than the mobile phone mast.

[chuckskull]

It's actually caused by her dressing as a keyboard.

Case closed.

[AD-15]

I do not understand at all how this woman can actually 'feel' (supposedly anyway), let alone how on earth she could feel those 'quite extreme' symptoms.

Anybody have any idea what kind of frequency waves Wifi equipment emits?

[MadduckUK]

"Except for 802.11a, which operates at 5 GHz, Wi-Fi uses the spectrum near 2.4 GHz,"

[MadduckUK]

hang on..

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11...alth_concerns/

"Stowe School, the Buckinghamshire public school, also removed part of its wireless network after a teacher became ill. Michael Bevington, a classics teacher for 28 years at the school, said that he had such a violent reaction to the network that he was too ill to teach,"

oh dear its not an isolated case?

i really must use this excuse at work.. thankfully the pub is a wireless free zone, perhaps relocation there is necessary

"such a violent reaction"
punching the children?

[redsky009]

I hate it when those wireless signals punch me.. the naughty buggerers

[UKMuFFiN]

Ha ha ha, I'd love to meet these people, take one of those usb wireless dongles and wave it around at them, see if they flinch.