Is the router pregnant women protected by radiation protection or marketing gimmicks?

Is the router pregnant women protected by radiation protection or marketing gimmicks?

This month, Qihoo 360 launched a new secure Wi-Fi router. The highlight of this router is that users can set the "through the wall", "balance mode" and "Pregnant Women mode" three-step signal adjustment mode. Soon after its release, this product attracted controversy. The focus is of course the "Pregnant Women model". Is it a marketing stunt or can it really protect pregnant women?

Currently, there is no evidence that Wi-Fi signals can cause any harm to the human body. However, Qihoo 360 claims that the Wi-Fi router can reduce the radiation produced by the router by adding the pregnant women mode. Specifically, the Wi-Fi signal radiation sent by the router can be reduced by 70%. Zhou Hongyi, CEO of Qihoo 360, said: "The target users of this product are those who are afraid of radiation ." Naturally, pregnant women are the core target group.

In recent years, with the increase of functions and types of electronic devices and household appliances, the electromagnetic radiation around us is also increasing, so that people begin to pay attention to the impact of electromagnetic radiation on human health. Previous News reported that a mother-in-law, in order to give her daughter-in-law peace of mind, had another household in a building shut down the WiFi router, fearing that radiation would affect the children before birth. From this extreme example, we can see that people's fear of radiation has reached an unprecedented level, which has also led to the emergence of various types of anti-radiation maternity clothing on the market. There is always nothing wrong with prevention, but do we have to worry about the radiation fear from telecom devices?

In fact, the non-ionising radiation emitted by telecommunications equipment is very different from the radiation emitted by uranium and other radioactive substances. at least so far, there is no evidence that, the former has any impact on the human body.

"A large amount of evidence shows that exposure to electromagnetic fields does not increase the risk of adverse reactions, such as spontaneous abortion and fetal malformed," Health Organization officials have commented on electromagnetic radiation in pregnant women, low birth weight, congenital diseases, etc."

You may say that this requires more research, but over the past thirty years, nearly 25 thousand papers have been published on the impact of non-ionization radiation on organisms, although some people believe that more research is needed, the breadth of scientific knowledge research in this field exceeds that of most chemicals.

Apparently, there is no scientific basis for claims that Wi-Fi signals will adversely affect the body. Some people think that the "Pregnant Women" mode in the 360 router is the power-saving mode. In this mode, the radiation signal intensity is smaller than that in the normal mode. In this regard, vro360 is an energy-saving router, rather than an artifact to prevent radiation. In the absence of adequate scientific evidence, the pregnant women model is clearly suspected of excessive marketing.