New use for cell phones!

[matrix2003]

http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/4969270/

[rcallicotte]

Wouldn't have believed it...

[Will]

damn, that stuff is going into my ear??

[matrix2003]

...exactly!  I'm thinking brain cells are probably easier to breach than a popcorn kernel!

[old_blaggard]

Wow, that's ridiculous!

[rcallicotte]

Well, try it with two and I wonder if it would work.  And it's on the ringing and not the talking, when it happens.  Of course, maybe someone will experiment with all of that.

[matrix2003]

Well  -  both my boys have the obligatory cell, "to call mom and dad",  Mom .... has the blackberry, doing the corporate thing.
I will be recreating this "experiment" at home.  And will hopefully capture it as a .ter file.

I hope the corn-kernel advocating types do not turn on me.

[Will]

for some reason or another my speakers arn't shielded so when the phone rings or when i talk I hear the signal going out, it sounds a lot like morse code but with different tones and volumes from time to time.

[Xpleet]

...exactly!  I'm thinking brain cells are probably easier to breach than a popcorn kernel!

excellent thought.

I've seen this a while ago and it's really amazing, after this guy eats the popcorn, it's obviously pretty hot too.

[Dark Fire]

There was a good discussion about how dangerous these devices are, on XDA-Developers. However, they're all well within US and EU safety limits. I suppose the good news is that they did require several phones to do that...

[Extraterrestrial]

We're all going to develop brain cancer from cell phones! shucks...can't believe that they can make popcorn! I think from now on that will be my only use for my cell 

[JimB]

There was a good discussion about how dangerous these devices are, on XDA-Developers. However, they're all well within US and EU safety limits. I suppose the good news is that they did require several phones to do that...

That would depend on what the respective governments deem 'acceptable risk', whether the science was edited by politicians or was carried out by the phone companies and was unedited there by executives, and over what period the tests were made to examine longer term lower exposure effects.   

If three phones can cook popcorn in seconds, what does one phone do over ten years? Cook popcorn more slowly?

[inkydigit]

mmmm popcorn!

[JimB]

I know two people now who have tried to recreate this, and both failed to make the popcorn go pop.

[rcallicotte]

It's a conspiracy, I tell ya.   

I know two people now who have tried to recreate this, and both failed to make the popcorn go pop.