Israel’s Radiation App

These days, we’re warned that everything will give us cancer —diet soda, air pollutants and perhaps most prominently, cell phones.

But according to an Israeli high-tech startup, there’s an app for that. Or at least, there was, until Apple banned the product from its iPhone application store.

“Once you reach a red zone where your phone emits a high level of radiation, we provide some audio alert,” said Gil Friedlander, founder and CEO of Tawkon, the Israeli company that created the app. “You could ignore our indication or if you choose to have a glance at the screen you find a suggestion as to how you can reduce your radiation level.”

The app, developed by engineers at the InfoTel radiation lab in Herzliya, uses an algorithm to measure the radio frequency accumulated during a call and from there estimates just how much radiation your body is absorbing, he explained.  Continue reading…