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Baby Monitor Shows Space Shuttle Astronauts
Illinois mother Natalie Meilinger turned on her
video
baby monitor - and saw astronauts from the Space
Shuttle Atlantis.
Broadcast engineers said one of Meilinger's neighbors has a wireless device
connected to a TV that matches the frequency on the baby monitor.
Meilinger said it's strange to see something on the monitor other than her son
Jack, but it's giving her a great story to tell.
June 14th, 2007
Bathing Infants in Radiation
Baby monitors could be "bathing
the infants in radiation
at an age when they are most vulnerable to it," according to British newspaper
The Independent.
Sir William Stewart, chairman of the Health Protection Agency, has been
privately pressing an investigation into the effects on children of installing
Wi-Fi networks in schools.
Baby monitors are typically placed close to infants, who are particularly at
risk from radiation. An inquiry by Sir William into mobile phones seven years
ago reported that a one-year-old child could absorb about twice as much per
kilogram of body weight as an adult.
Babies are especially vulnerable because their bodies and nervous systems are
still developing and because they will have more time to accumulate exposure to
the radiation and for any delayed effects to develop.
Professor Denis Henshaw of the University of Bristol said the monitors are
"being marketed without any checks and balances or even studies into their
effects".
May 23rd, 2007
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