Apple bans iPhone app that measures cell phone radiation

I have no idea whether cell phone use turns your brain into a doughnut.

But I imagine if someone were clever enough to create an iPhone app that told you how much radiation your phone was emitting, and therefore how big a hole your brain might soon enjoy, you might just be interested.

Unfortunately, it seems that though there might be such an app, you won’t be able to partake of its skills on your iPhone.

According to TechCrunch, an Israeli developer called Tawkon created an app that, with the help of a finely tuned algorithm, measures your Specific Absorption Rate. This is the rate at which your whole body, not just your little brain, absorbs energy from a radio frequency magnetic field. The Tawkon app then factors in environmental conditions and phone usage in order to give you some accurate sense of your exposure to bad rays.

No, no. It wasn’t radiation that turned them this color.

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