For my friend, proximity is a big issue, but so is activity. He doesn't seem to have issues with microwaves, but cell phones do effect him. Microwaves typically only operate for a minute or so at most, it takes on the order of 15-30 minutes for his headaches to manifest. Tech conferences, especially the hallway wififests like SXSW really wipe him out. While I don't agree with 'lets ban wifi everywhere', every time I see someone with an ethernet cable 6 inches from their computer who can't be bothered to plug it in, I have to wonder what we're doing to ourselves. Wireless it great and all, but would you really be surprised in 5 or 10 years if the sudden rise in cases of autism in the US was found to be a result of cell phone or wifi radiation? Stranger things have happened. To assume we completely and fundamentally know how these technologies effect us is incredibly presumptive.

I have a friend who gets headaches when he's close to active wifi components. I'd like to say I'm surprised by the vitriol expressed by some people in this comments thread, but I imagine it's similar to what people say whenever something new happens and people don't understand it's implications. To assume that we somehow 'know' that the radiation all these devices emit isn't harmful is absurd. We're always discovering new things and new interactions between things we don't understand. Asbestos, cause cancer? DDT, cause mutant babies? Lead? Dozens of drugs that have been approved and assumed safe? I mean, it goes on and on...

I so want to work at the Tiggywinkles Animal Hospital...

So who won?

Cell phones? O Rly?

Looks good guys, as with all redesigns, time to take a deep breath and give things a while to sink in.