Cell Phone Popcorn Hoax Revealed.

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Everybody know that the cell phone making popcorn video it's a big Hoax and i will show you how it's done.Disclaimer: CAUTION! As you know...microwave can be dangerous. Never point them at any living object! This is not a toy, and this should not be used like a conventional microwave. In other words, don't allow children to use it. It should only be operated by responsible persons who understand and respect the potential microwave safety hazards.



You are an Idiot
Can you pop corn with a cell phone?

Plenty of people were fooled into believing they could, though, after watching a video showing cell phones popping corn on the Internet ...

Truth is, the whole thing was a hoax. Cardo Systems, a wireless headset manufacturer, created and distributed the videos as a viral marketing campaign. But as pointed out in Slate, the effect of this clever (or insidious, depending on your point of view) advertisement was to tap into people's fears about cell-phone safety: If it can cook popcorn, so the idea goes, what might it be doing to our brains?

Still, we wonder: How'd they get the corn to pop in the video?

Here's how: Once the cell phones started ringing, the video makers dropped popped kernels into the center of the table, between the phones. They later digitally removed the unpopped kernels you see early in the video, thereby creating the illusion that your cell phone can double as a Jiffy Pop.
  1. By: Free Spirit Prod.
  2. Categories How To, Science & Tech
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  4. Added :18-Jun-08
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  • Watch out for your phone..

    If it get too many microwaves a monster will burst out from it... true story.. saw it on Metacafe...

    By WildBillBassMan 1213839417
    • haha

      yes i saw that video too xd

      By shadew 1214104231
  • Bored to tears!

    So you didn't have cable or what? You might as well put your cell phone up to your cats ass and let your friends listen to its ass pucker! Now thats a hoax! A sphincter says What?

    By sexysqueeze 1215799881
  • 5 stars

    my brother cause there is some F**king idiots posted more than 10 videos trying to make me belive in F**king stupid idea ...good joke and good explaination

    By neno711 1215734261
  • Sweet

    .

    By bradblaze15 1215112744
  • nope...

    microwave radiation isn't ionizing radiation, it isn't powerful enough to affect something chemically. on the electromagnetic spectrum it's just below infrared

    this definitely isn't dangerous, if it was you wouldn't use the same device to prepare your meals.

    By Turtleshell 1213832940
    • Ummmm....fail much?

      Okay, you get the fail award of the year. Microwaves are quite definitely dangerous when they are *focused on one point*, as they are here. This is a REALLY BAD IDEA. The prank is not worth the high possibility of
      -cataracts
      -cancer
      -sterility

      By Postscript624 1224191059
  • OR.........

    You could have a coffee table made of metal that looks like wood and put a HOTPLATE under it.

    By pennsteve676767 1213829462
  • Explain this

    /watch/yt-frENzGBx3Q0

    By MetaFounder 1213827937
  • isn't this kind of dangerous??

    you know.. microwaves..

    By seishin6 1213823477
    • explaination

      The magnetron is pointed straight up and the level of danger in the 30 seconds it takes to pop the corn is minimal.

      By Free Spirit Prod. 1213994437
  • MW your cell phone too?

    doesn't that also fry the phone?

    By ftbotsb 1213808541
  • Dam

    that's a lot of hassle for a prank .....hope you had lead pants !!

    By manneedingaplan 1213792252
  • well

    ill tell you a real thing.. you can call someone for free just by using 1800 mumdad

    By chiara_baby 1270458565
  • maybe

    maybe they had a lighter under the table in the cell phone one instead of frying there phone and busting out in blisters all over

    By kojack442 1264325632
  • microwaves

    microwaves work by vibrating liquid in an object and since we are 97% water you can explode from doing this or at least get real bad blisters

    By kojack442 1264325547
  • this is the real way it's done

    go to my channel

    By yuvaldavidov 1225894204
  • Idiots

    Can you pop corn with a cell phone?

    Bunk. Plenty of people were fooled into believing they could, though, after watching a video showing cell phones popping corn on the Internet ...

    Truth is, the whole thing was a hoax. Cardo Systems, a wireless headset manufacturer, created and distributed the videos as a viral marketing campaign. But as pointed out in Slate, the effect of this clever (or insidious, depending on your point of view) advertisement was to tap into people's fears about cell-phone safety: If it can cook popcorn, so the idea goes, what might it be doing to our brains?

    Still, we wonder: How'd they get the corn to pop in the video?

    Here's how: Once the cell phones started ringing, the video makers dropped popped kernels into the center of the table, between the phones. They later digitally removed the unpopped kernels you see early in the video, thereby creating the illusion that your cell phone can double as a Jiffy Pop.


    A microwave will cook you - It is true there is no loss of energy when reflected but Microwaves also travel in all directions. You are stupid to play with microwaves. I work in X-Ray - Same principle and same results.

    By Big E Smith 1225828383
  • not to b rude pal...

    ...but isn,t this kinda risky...cancer,blindness and things...?

    By bravehot69 1220824326
  • Warning About Cell Phone Popcorn Tests

    By Ted Twietmeyer
    8-16-8

    No one should try to duplicate the mad experiment where popcorn is made using a magnetron under a table.

    Here are 7 good reasons NOT to do this:

    1. Police officers have used radar guns to warm themselves in their cars in winter. Many of them now have testicular cancer.

    2. Cell phones actually DO cause cancer. Studies FUNDED by cell phone companies show no connection. Other studies such as those done in Europe WITHOUT cell phone company funding have repeatedly shown a connection to CANCER. Our family lost a relative to cell phone cancer. The rapidly growing, agressive cancer tumor started EXACTLY WHERE THE ANTENNA WAS beside the head. Surgery didn't stop it. It turned into lethal lymphoma. Coincidence? I think not.

    3. A cell phone has less than 1 watt of RF power. A magnetron from any microwave oven has a power output of 400 to 700 watts.

    4. Exposure to microwave radiation at that power level even for a few seconds, can create cataracts in the eyes with possible permanent retinal damage. In other words, you could be completely blind, perhaps for life, in seconds. The idiot that removed the magnetron from the oven and wired it up to use under the table apparently seems to forget that magnetrons are used to COOK FOOD. A magnetron does not care whether it cooks chicken or people. Or their organs.

    5. If the microwave beam that shoots up vertically through the table top hits a light fixture, a junction box inside a ceiling or even a metal object on the floor above or in an attic the RF energy will be reflected BACK DOWN into the room. And this reflection is quite efficient delivering almost 100% of the power back down into the room, similar to how light from a flashlight bounces off a mirror.

    6. There are lethal voltages of about 2,500 volts in a microwave oven that power the magnetron with more than enough current to kill you. This is about the same voltage that was used in the electric chair.

    7. The microwave energy is more than powerful enough to completely destroy cell phones or electronics near the exposed magnetron in seconds.

    In short, this video should NEVER have been posted despite the ignorant comments that area shown below it.

    Ted Twietmeyer
    data4science.net

    tedtw@frontiernet.net

    By Jsobiranski 1220370796
  • explaination

    *
    explaination

    Not really... Microwaves are around 2.4Ghz, which is no where near high enough frequency to cause any kind of cancerous radiation. All it could do to would possibly give someone a burn if they held their hand or whatever, in front of the output for a while. Even then they would just be burned, no possibility of cancer or other long lasting effects from it.

    By Free Spirit Prod. 1214077757
  • GREAT IDEA!

    GREAT IDEA;) TAKE FIVE STARS

    By Highrespectable 1213860093
  • in ur face

    to whom posted fake vids about the connection btween popcorn and cell phone

    By hili4u 1213854500
  • 5 star!

    No, it's not dangerous. Just don't hold you hand over top of the magnitron or the water in your hand will begin to heat up. Also the amount of power goes way down the further you are away from it.

    By LiveFromMooseJaw 1213837271
  • i repair microwave since 15 years

    and when you doing right it's not dangerous at all.

    By Free Spirit Prod. 1213825435
    • ME???

      whwn i was three..
      hehe

      By madna 1215232408
  • cool!!

    good one brother!!
    but i hope you can still have kids after blasting your testicles with those unshielded microwaves!!!
    5 * !!!

    By Check-it-out 1213774148
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