• flashgnash@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Would be funny if they’d built a Faraday cage around the bathroom to stop people sitting on the toilet on their phones for ages

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    1 year ago

    Who uses their phone data at home?

    I assume countries that have affordable data plans from ISPs, but still…

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    1 year ago

    There’s actually a very simple reason for this phenomenon. A standard spring mattress essentially acts like a giant mirror, reflecting all sorts of radio waves, including your cellular signal. This can cause interference, leading to a dead zone in the near vicinity. The same effect was documented back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.