Keitai On Heart Off?
Despite railway operators requesting passengers to switch off their mobile phones near priority seats, many passengers are disregarding the rule, which is designed to prevent cell phones from having a potentially deleterious effect on certain medical devices….
According to the Japanese Heart Rhythm Society, which comprises heart disease experts, no report has yet been made of pacemakers malfunctioning as a result of mobile phones…
However, a pacemaker users association is calling on the public to be more aware of people fitted with the medical device…
Full story:Daily Yomiuri( Nov. 23, 2007)
Why request cellphones be turned off only on trains? What about people with cellphones on the platform? Or elsewhere in public? Pacemaker users can’t avoid people using cellphones on the street, or in the supermarket or… anywhere.
And how do we know if a person has pacemaker installed? Why turn off our cellphone if we don’t know if that elderly citizen on the train is relying on a pacemaker to keep on ticking? Maybe “Pacemaker Inside” buttons could be made available, like those Baby badges” maternity buttons.
So for the trains in Japan, here are my two pacemaker protection systems:
Yeah…also, just because someone’s old doesn’t mean they have a pacemaker or defibrillator, and just because someone has a pacemaker or defibrillator doesn’t mean they’re old. I may have to have one installed and I’m not even 30 yet
(Will my doctor say I have to stop using my cell phone?!)
November 26th, 2007 at 12:52 amThere are too many old people anyway.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:06 am>(Will my doctor say I have to stop using my cell phone?!)
You can use your cellphone from 22 meters away from it. Shout.
November 26th, 2007 at 8:26 amI can just imagine some school girl with her Keitai. “Moshi Moshi”
Then the guy sitting next to her, suddenly his chest explodes, Battle Royale style.
“mo iya desu ne!!”
November 26th, 2007 at 11:03 amlol at images.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:30 pmAre cellphone jammers legal in Japan?
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