How to safely charge a mobile phone

Stay safe while recharging phone batteries

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Mobile phone charging need not to be a dangerous risk. All mobile phone owners should do is be responsible enough to observe battery recharging precautions that could spell out safety versus disaster.

Australian website Mama Mia advised against sleeping while charging a mobile phone, especially when the handset itself is above the bed.

“As you can see by the scorched blankets and pillows, spending the night with your phone while it’s plugged in is a risky move. This is because phone batteries heat up as they charge, and if the device has no ventilation while this is happening — because it’s snuggled up between a mattress and a blanket, for instance — there’s a chance it’ll overheat. The battery can then melt or explode, causing the phone and any surrounding materials to ignite.”

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Awareness is the key

Graham Cluley meanwhile gave pointers on how to safely recharge mobile phone batteries when inside a hospital facility. Taming Electricity Bills

“If you look around the hospital room, you will notice that many of devices now have that familiar USB port into which a charging cable will fit. What’s the harm of “plugging in” to snatch a few precious volts while you visit a sick friend or loved one, or as you wait around in the emergency room? The problem is that the ports on those devices are usually not simple charging stations. Those ports are used by the machine’s technicians to service and update a medical device that may be responsible for keeping someone alive. Innocently plugging your phone into one of those devices could damage the medical device, rendering it inoperable.”

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SoftPedia meantime offered a high-tech solution to risks associated with mobile phone charging.  GreenElectrician                          

“Instead of Tesla’s electromagnetic fields that obviously transmit electromagnetic radiation, uBeam uses ultrasonic energy, or simply ultrasound. This is the type of wireless energy that can reliably, and most of all safely, transmit energy wirelessly. Why does it matter more? Because it can be used on over-distance wireless power transmission without endangering thousands of people’s health.”

Read more about this technology here.

How do you safely charge your mobile phone?

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