Pong: Radiation-Blocking iPhone Case Smells Fishy
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There is one thing you need to know about cellphone radiation: without it, you don’t have a cellphone. Or at least, you don’t have a cellphone that can make calls. The radiation is the signal.
If you block that signal, the phone will pump up its output in order to carry your call. Remember the last time you flew and forgot to switch off your phone? The battery was dead when you arrived, right? That’s because, searching for a network, the phone was running its radio at full tilt to acquire one.
With that in mind, let’s take a look at the Pong, a tin-foil-hat (or “case”) for your iPhone, which purports to deflect the dangerous brain-boiling rays away from your bonce. As you might expect, the “how it works” section is littered with meaningless tosh, handily hiding the lack of actual science. Here are some samples, with comment:
Pong uses a patented physics-based solution to redirect the flow of this energy.
Appeals to hippies.
The Pong technology module, optimally aligned with the phone’s internal antenna, attracts the radiative energy. The Pong Effect occurs as a pure energy transfer with no distortion due to the properties of the module material and microwave-tuned antenna design.
Those are English words, arranged into an English sentence, yet somehow they remain meaning-free.
Chimney Effect
The unique “ladder” configuration of the Pong module moves the signal and its hazardous radiation through the Pong case like a chimney, and away from the user.
What?
As you can see, it looks a lot like science, but it ain’t. Even the “Test Data” comes in the form of acronym-peppered nonsense, and is accompanied by the very scientific diagram seen above, next to the Pong case itself. How much is this paranoia-placebo? A predictably expensive $60. There’s a pong here, alright, and it’s the stink of snake-oil.
Product page [Pong Research]
