No, millimeter waves are at least 10 to 100 times shorter in wavelength than the other items you mentioned.

Millimeter waves, by definition, have a wavelength between 1mm and 10mm. A microwave oven, wireless router, or cell phone all have a wavelength of around 125mm or longer. So the energy in each photon of millimeter wave radiation is 10 to 100 times greater than the energy in each photon from a wireless router.

It is possible, therefore, that it could be sufficient to trigger adverse effects in living cells. And it is just common sense and basic respect for human rights and dignity to investigate the long term health effects of repeated exposure to millimeter waves, before irradiating hundreds of millions of innocent people every year.

That's amazing that you are able to encode, do motion detection, and write to disk, 25fps * 8 channels = 200fps in real time on a low power Atom based system! I would never have imagined that the Atom could do that.

I would appreciate it if you would post the details of the motherboard, encoding card, and storage system that you're using to achieve these results.

Regardless of one's views on supernatural experiences, religion, or life after death, the arguments presented in the linked article must be rejected, because they are illogical, and very embarrasingly so for their authors, and also for their publishers.

In essence, they argue from the premise that the mere fact that a perception of having an experience can be triggered by an artificial stimulus to the brain, implies that the experience itself is never caused by anything in objective reality, and is entirely a product of subjective internal biochemical processes. But that conclusion doesn't follow logically, at all.

For example, we know that visual hallucinations can be triggered by artificial stimuli, but from that observation, it does not follow that light does not exist, and that those of us who claim to see things, such as this text on the screen, must be imagining it.

We also know from experiments conducted by electrically stimulating the brains of patients undergoing brain surgery, that vivid memories of childhood experiences can be evoked, having such clarity and vividness that they seem to the patient as if they were happening right then and there on the operating table, at the time of the experiment. But from these observations it does not follow that those experiences never really took place at all, or that the persons claiming to have had those childhood experiences were merely hallucinating when they were four years old, and thought that they were playing with their father.

just like most people hadn't owned a smart phone before getting the iPhone.

Hahahahahaha! No wait, that wasn't a joke - you seriously believe that, don't you?

Most people don't own an Iphone full stop. Nokia have 40% share - and Apple have not very much. Perhaps it was the first smart phone for most Iphone users, but that tells us little - it may well be true that most Nokia owners got a Nokia as their first smart phone, and same for all other makes.

But "revolutionary to most Iphone users" isn't "revolutionary to most people". Since the Iphone has less than 5% market share, this is clearly true. At least, it would be if you relied on market facts, rather than making it up as you go along.

And can you give me a definition of smart phone that included the original Iphone, but doesn't include most feature phones? Thought not.

You seriously base your logic on "Most people haven't owned a tablet PC, therefore the Ipad will be revolutionary"? That's absurd logic. The same reasoning would apply to any non-Apple tablet too. Sorry, you don't get to be revolutionary when you're not first. The popularity argument is dubious anyway (was Windows and IE revolutionary, because it was most people's first experience?), but it's laughable to claim it to a vaporware product that isn't even released, and isn't remotely near being something that most people use.

A hearing aid is specifically designed, manufactured, marketed, and dispensed, for one and only one purpose: to treat a human disease. It is not intended to be used, nor can it safely be used, by people with normal hearing.

By its very nature, it modifies the function of the human body. It is not in any way comparable to an article of clothing, or an mp3 player, whose fit and function can be ascertained by a layman, and which can be worn or used safely by virtually anyone.

Using an improperly made hearing aid, or even a properly made one that isn't specifically prescribed for you, would certainly cause you harm, including potentially irreversible nerve damage, and hearing loss. And a layman, end-user, who bought one over the counter, is not qualified to determine whether it is functioning correctly, or appropriately for his hearing deficit. It could be producing levels at certain frequencies that cause long-term damage, and he would never know it, until it was too late. So, it is absolutely in no way analogous or comparable to a pair of track shoes, or an mp3 player.

A hearing aid is obviously a medical device, and correctly regulated as such, in my opinion, because it must be dispensed properly, and must perform correctly, or it can cause serious adverse health effects for its user.

I don't agree with the premise that a hearing aid is innocuous, and incapable of causing death or serious injury, therefore doesn't require stringent safety testing.

Given that every component of every device is subject to possible failure, I could imagine a scenario where a component failure in a defectively designed hearing aid could convert it from an amplifier, into an oscillator. Imagine that you are driving down the highway at 100km/h when suddenly, you have a 110dB tone at 2khz blasting into your ear, coming from a device the size of a pea, wedged deep in your ear canal. I could see that scenario very easily leading to serious injury, or death.

I would want to know that my hearing aid has been design validated, so that no possible failure, or combination of failures, could ever cause that to happen.

First, it's a medical device, not a commodity consumer item like a netbook, so its manufacturer must prove both its safety and effectiveness, with independent tests, before it can be licensed for sale by the FDA in the U.S., or the corresponding medical regulatory authority in other countries. That process is time consuming, and expensive. Those costs must be paid for, and are reflected in the price. Second, its technology requires extremely low power circuitry, and a much higher level of miniaturization, than a netbook. These factors too, naturally increase the cost of the device.