I have closed my door. I am ignoring the fax machine. The ringer on my phone is turned off. My e-mail has been disabled. There is a monster lurking off the southern Atlantic Coast that rivals the dreaded hurricane Georges and its name is PCS ’98. I can feel her movements halfway across the country here in Denver.
For those attending the show, the experience is probably akin to an earthquake of sound and movement-a total assault of the senses with information coming from all directions. For those of us who stay behind to monitor the regular news channels, it is more like a flood. A calm, quiet, yet unrelenting flood of paper flowing into the office, ensuring that we are aware of every happening in Orlando. I need a vacation and I don’t want to go anywhere near Disneyworld.
The reporters are calling in from Florida to tell us what is important and what is not so important. Which companies have big news or exciting products to show and which companies missed their product launches. Who gave the same tired old speech at which seminar, who ignored the important topics at another and who wowed the crowd at a third. We heard the 3D light show at the SuperSession and the Gala party both were impressive and fun.
I guess the show frenzy is at least a diversion from Monicagate. Still, as with the White House scandal, I am ready for it to subside. After three weeks of pre-show hype (including the largest-176 pages-issue ever published by RCR, thank you very much!), I am plain tired and I didn’t even have to walk the 12 football fields of exhibit space.
So here is a little diversion from the diversion … on the periphery of the wireless industry and regarding tired people.
At a meeting two weeks ago of the Head and Neck Surgery Foundation, a study was presented titled, “Radio-frequency tongue base reduction in sleep disorder breathing.” The study looks at using RF energy to reduce tongue base obstruction, a leading cause of obstructive sleep apnea.
Traditionally surgical means are used for tongue base obstruction reduction-removing excess tissue that reduces airflow in a person’s upper air passages causing the partial or total disruption of breathing during sleep-but this study examined using RF energy to deliver controlled thermal energy into targeted areas of the upper airway, thereby reducing the tissue volume with the RF energy.
The study cited an average of a 17 percent reduction in tissue volume among the participants using this less intrusive method. Interesting to see an RF health study advocating the use of RF to improve health …
