Carmi Levy

These are headphones that are often worn by younger people, kids who are playing games for lots of, you know, late into the night.

They're worn by pregnant women who are especially susceptible to these chemicals leaching through their bloodstream.

So this is really weird.

We're supposed to have laws in place, yet for whatever reason, the devices that we're buying, many of them aren't compliant with them.

Yeah, and I'm worried as well, especially because some of these devices or components, we are touching them fairly frequently.

I'm typing on a keyboard all day long.

I often wear headphones for extended periods of time.

And what they did was they looked at both hard and soft plastics, pulled these devices into their labs, and they looked for the parts that touch the skin, the parts that don't touch the skin.

And then they established kind of like a red, yellow, green rating on, you know, do they exceed the limits?

Is there a high concern or is it a low risk?

And, you know, what's scary here is that, you know, there are, you know, it doesn't, this report doesn't give exact numbers of what they found.

It just has a color coded response.

And so we kind of have to take it on faith that when vendors are telling us these devices are safe, that they are.

But this research suggests otherwise.

And it also suggests further research is necessary.

And quite frankly, governments that have rules in place that dictate limits for these very dangerous chemicals, they should be on notice that the industry obviously isn't complying to the level that they thought they were.

It is.

So just imagine there's a woman, she's driving on a highway, an overpass, an off-ramp in Houston.

The car is under automated control, so autopilot, full self-driving.

Yet instead of curving into the road as it should, all of a sudden it starts driving directly toward the side.