App Estimates Your Smartphone Radiation Exposure

We use smartphones, cell phones and tablets for hours every day, but we know very little about how these devices affect our health. The potential health hazard has inspired an entire bookshelf of cautionary books.

The Tawkon app aims to measure your exposure to radiation when using your device. The app estimates the radiation level on your phone and tells you the safest places to make a call. We’ve embedded the introduction video above–what do you think?

Here’s more from the company: “Information is transmitted from the cell phone to the base station and vice versa via powerful, high-frequency electromagnetic fields.

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