From: earl@netcom.com (Earl Vickers)
Subject: Re: TECH: Radiation
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 16:57:10 GMT
Organization: Reality Factory 



I was talking to a friend about HMDs. He told me that the video artist
who used to work with Nam Jun Paik, and who played a cello with
TV monitors in it, had ended up with cancer of both breasts.

Considering that radiation intensity is inversely proportional to the
square of the distance, plus the fact that some forms of radiation will
attenuate even faster than that due to shielding from air particles, etc.,
would you really want to put a pair of color monitors an inch away from
your eyes? Or even B&W monitors? I don't have the answer, but I think
it's an important question.

Earl Vickers		earl@netcom.com