The Discredited 070 Phone Numbers
070 numbers were heralded in the UK as personal numbers that you’d keep for life.
I can’t ever remember seeing one in recent years from anyone who was remotely legitimate.
On the one hand they are a marketing disaster, as people think they are expensive mobile phone numbers and don’t ring them, unless they have to.
And on the other hand, every scam seems to be linked to an 070 number.
So I’d never buy one or phone one for that matter.
A Period Mobile Phone
Is my Elan, one of the few with an original early-1990’s analogue mobile phone?
A Period Panasonic Mobile Phone
Note the Sony radio, which is the only non-original equipment in the car. As I’ve still got the original Binatone from the car, perhaps if someone wants an early 1990’s original Elan for a film, then this is the car.
The Mobile Phone Aerial
The mobile phone aerial is just a little spike on the windscreen. It is actually glued on both sides, so there is no hole in the windscreen.
Alzheimer’s Disease and Mobile Phones
I was sent an article about gluten-free food and this unrelated extract stood out.
Mobile phones and Alzheimer’s disease – Recent research suggests that mobile phone radiation may halt the progression of Alzheimer’s in mice but experts take issue with both the research methods and the report’s conclusions.
A summary of the research offers this explanation.
The researchers showed that exposing old Alzheimer’s mice to the electromagnetic waves generated by cell phones erased brain deposits of beta-amyloid, a protein strongly associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Clumps of beta-amyloid form so-called brain plaques that are a hallmark of the disease.
As an engineer, I’m not surprised if this happens. Irradiating things has all sorts of effects. Some are positive and some are downright dangerous.
Now, it has also been shown that low-levels of B12 may lead to Azheimer’s and other brain problems.
It would strike me as an engineer that these two areas of research are perhaps some of first pieces of a jigsaw, that if we can solve it, will lead to ways of possibly delaying the onset of what is a very nasty disease.
I hope so.
Is This the World’s Naffest Product?
There are certain things in life that I don’t like.
And this product combines two of my least favourite products in one very naff package; the iPhone and a table lamp!
The Anonymous Widower 