You can’t live without your laptop, but can you live with the radiation? That’s the question people are asking as laptops become the computer of choice for the person on the go. Questions about radiation from laptops remain largely unanswered. The concern is that laptops have the capacity to rest in the lap which allows direct contact with the body in contrast to a desktop which generally rests several feet away from the body. Is radiation from lap tops a health threat?
The radiation emitted from a computer monitor or from a laptop is a low frequency type of radiation, in contrast to ionizing radiation which has enough force to remove an electron from at atom. Exposure to ionizing radiation is of great concern because the high energy waves have the ability to alter DNA, the genetic material found in cells. Ionizing radiation can create mutations which increase the risk of developing a cancer if the mutation isn’t repaired by the body’s own natural defense mechanisms. (more…)
