Cell Phone Headsets
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It’s hard to imagine my life with out a Cell Phone let alone a cell phone headset. Using my phone and both hands at the same time will greatly improve your productivity. Remember that last time you tried typing on a computer and talking on the phone at the same time. After a few minutes your neck starts to crink or worse yet the phone slips from your ear and hits the floor. They come in many different colors and sizes and look very space-age. If you don’t mind looking like Johnny Spaceman, you could conceivably talk on the phone and use both of your hands for working, knitting or whatever. But this is the dawn of cell phone headset technology. Any new technology is going to have its advantages and disadvantages.
Head set Advantages
Multi tasking is by for the leading advantage. I still say talking on the phone in the car even with a head set is not a good idea. Cell phone headsets are based on the headsets that telephone operators or call center workers wear. Sometimes professional singers will wear combination wireless headset microphones in order to dance or play an instrument as they sing. Cell phone headsets come wireless or corded and often have added extras like stereo sound and adaptation for iPods or Walkmans.
Disadvantages
First off, cell phone headsets can help make you oblivious to essential surrounding noise that helps you get around in life. It is never a good idea to wear one while driving, for instance. Besides that simple fact have you ever answered someone who was just standing in line in front of you and they started talking. They half way look your way and then say hi how are you? You answer only to feel dumb a second later because you notice they were talking to some one on their headset. When I think about it they are the ones that look dumb. I once asked a women if she was Ok because a man next to hear was yelling violently. After asking here she said she did not know the guy and he was talking on the phone wirelessly.
Another major disadvantage is that we just don’t know that much about the effects of long-term cell phone headset use on the human body. Come to think of it, we also don’t know the long-term affects of using cell phones on the human body. This is a major piece of microwave-producing machinery being placed next to your head.
A 2005 Swedish study showed there was evidence that long-term cell phone use can give you a brain tumor and puts you at greater risk for developing brain cancer. The same study also suggested that at least traditional cell phones are safer than cell phone headsets, because the latter put out much more electro-magnetic radiation. A later study that just came out today and prompted this article was those that talk on their cell right before they go to bed, take longer to get to sleep and have less REM sleep time.
Another disadvantage is that you are talking to people who aren’t there in front of you. Although this is the Information Age, modern human beings are sadly lacking in the art of personal communication. Believe it or not, our species managed to survive just fine without cell phones or cell phone headsets.
In conclusion, both cell phones and cell phone headsets should be used in moderation or just for emergencies. Being at the supermarket and wondering which brand of cereal you have left at home does NOT constitute an emergency.
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