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Does your phone cook your head? Check...!

There are limits on how much power a mobile phone can transmit; one of them is "is this safe for humans?" Here's a free download which will tell you whether your proposed next purchase meets those standards, and by how much... PhoneRa.

Don't go googling for phonera.com because that's quite another outfit. Your download is at RA Products - and you just run it.

"It gives you the level of the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) of your (next) cell phone/mobile phone," says the author. It goes on:

SAR is short for Specific Absorption Rate and it is a measure of the maximum amount of energy absorbed by a unit of mass of exposed tissue of a person using a cell phone/mobile phone over a given time. The value is expressed in units of Watts per kilogram (W/kg).

The European Council in Europe recommends maximum exposure limits of 2.0 W/kg

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the USA recommends maximum exposure limits of 1.6 W/kg

All cell phones/mobile phones sold today are emitting radiation below the recommended levels but their levels vary widely. While some are emitting very low amounts (virtually nil), others are emitting amounts that almost reach the maximum recommended exposure limits.

So pick your way through the list, enter the results into a spreadsheet, and you too can shine in mast debating circles with your erudite knowledge of phone radiation league tables...