Anti-radiation battery firm shuts shop
25 April 2008
Anti-radiation battery firm shuts shop
A company which sold mobile phone batteries claiming to protect users from the effects of potentially harmful radiation, has, perhaps unsurprisingly, shut up shop.
London-based Exradia, founded by the US parent of the same name, has taken its website offline and we hear it has gone into liquidation. US retailer Expansys lists Exradia's products as 'discontinued'.
The company was peddling a special battery for mobile devices, to protect against THE RAYS!. You might, as we did, wonder what the connection between RF emissions and batteries is, but Exradia's explanation is unlikely to leave you any the wiser. Apparently, its battery emits less radiation itself.
By way of explanation, Exradia cited some bamboozling reports drawn up by an Austrian scientist in June, 2006. The paper consisted of a literature review, which was primarily made up of studies on RF exposure taken from its US sister company's website. There were also some papers about exposure to magnetic fields cycling at 50-60Hz, including some which claim that magnetic fields rendered day old chicks more resistant to anoxia and heat stress. The whole thing floats on an unproven theory that random electromagnetic activity is safe but anything with a pattern is dangerous.
Exradia claims that one's cells alter their metabolism in response to a signal "coherent for more than one second". This seems to say that one's cells are maintaining state on every passing radio waveform, but surely the signals involved change much more rapidly that once a second?
In a nutshell, Exradia's US-based sister company, EMX BioChip, describes its offering as a transmitter of random noise. Apparently, the original signal "transmits a digital information message into the cellular system characterised as a warning message informing the cellular system about the EMF exposure", and disrupting the signal prevents this.
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