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...correspondents are now joined, umbilical-like, to each other and the rest of the world. So we zoom up Kurdistan's mountain roads, messaging each other from our cars - no more stopping to assemble, swivel around and curse a satellite phone bigger than a laptop whose lid-cum-antenna have an irritating habit of dropping on your fingers...
...rats died even when radiation levels were 1,000 times smaller than the current E.U.-allowed level, although the rats were only exposed for two hours. "It's a damned small little thing," says Salford. "These levels easily exist inside the brain of a human when he has the antenna next to his head." Or maybe even when he doesn't. The group has shown albumin leakage at powers as low as 0.5 milliwatts - a level that exists as far as 1.8 m away from a mobile phone's antenna. "Passive mobile phoning, like passive smoking, may also soon...
...take existing objects and push their functionality to the limit, thus extending their uses in unexpected ways. Instead of a public phone, this is a public umbrella, or Street Umbrella, as they have dubbed it. A mobile phone is incorporated into the handle, and the point acts as an antenna. The umbrella protects the speaker from rain, sun or the rest of the street's noise and activities so that he or she can have a conversation. Set into the wall behind the Street Umbrella is a screen with which users can navigate the telephone menu. The screen could also...
...with a built-in HD converter at no extra charge. (Time Warner Cable is owned by AOL Time Warner, which also publishes this magazine.) Or, to get free HD over the air, you could hook a digital-TV tuner ($450 and above) and a UHF antenna (such as the Terk TV-55, about $100) to your...
...biggest money-maker for cities could come with a system upgrade to third-generation (3G) wireless technology (if and when that happens). To fill in cellular-service gaps and accommodate massive data transmissions, antennas will need to be closer to the ground and to one another. Utility poles are already home to thousands of bread-box-size microcells in California. And as every streetlight becomes a possible antenna site, Kreines wants wireless providers to pay local jurisdictions for using the right...