Tag: SICK

Lyndon Baty's weakened immune system won't allow him to attend classes at his local high school in Knox City, Texas. Fortunately, though, there's a robot capable of doing that for him. Baty, who suffers from Polycystic Kidney Disease, is now remotely attending his freshman classes via a VGO robot, which allows him to interact with his teachers and fellow students from the comfort of his own ...

Share Parents in the town of Barrie, Ontario, Canada, want their school district to disable its Wi-Fi network because, they claim, it's making their kids sick. According to a report by The Canadian Press, parents say that, after the district went wireless, kids from 14 different schools displayed symptoms -- including headaches, dizziness, nausea, faster heart rates, memory loss, trouble ...

Dr. Lawrie Challis, of the U.K.'s Mobile Telecommunications Health Research Program, is cautioning parents to keep laptops off of kiddie laps. Though he admits there's no direct evidence that children are getting ill from resting a laptop right where its name suggests you rest it, Challis warns that the jury is still out on whether or not Wi-Fi radiation (comparable to the amount emitted from a ...