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Cell Phone Popping Popcorn - Again!

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  • Added: 10-Jun-08

For all you skeptics - I've done this one more time.

Yes - you can pop popcorn using your cell phone! The trick is to get the antenna lined up with the kernel just right.

The video is zoomed out a bit further - so you can see how I've set things up.

The popcorn is superglued to the tip of a carbon fiber rod (doesn't conduct heat very well).

It took longer for some reason this time (maybe my alignment wasn't perfect) - I was worried it wasn't going to pop!

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Cell Phone Popping Popcorn - Again!

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  • lol

    U WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF UR LIFE. 2MORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF UR LIFE.HOWEVER IF U DONT POST THIS COMMENT TO ATLEAST 3 VIDEOS U WILL DIE IN 2 DAYS.NOW UV STARTED READIN THIS SO DONT STOP NOW!THIS IS SOOO SCARY.SEND THIS TO ATLEAST 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND UR CRUSSHES NAMEWILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS THIS IS SOO SCARY CUZ IT ACTUALLY WORKS!!!!!

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  • Sorry, but you're ...

    Sorry, but you're wrong. Microwaves exist above 1GHz in frequency and are NOTHING to do with sound. Sound is NOT electromagnetic - sound is formed from longitudinal waves whereas radio waves are transverse and can have varying degrees of phase... But yes, this video is complete bollocks!

    By Thomaaaas [Affiliate User] 1213757504 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • If you go to cardo ...

    If you go to cardo website they even say the vids are fake and they made them lol

    By d2dtk [Affiliate User] 1213736874 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Heat guns cost ...

    Heat guns cost about $15.. enough said..

    By unknwn55 [Affiliate User] 1213736503 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Cell phones do use ...

    Cell phones do use microwave technology. Any frequency between 300mHz - 300GHz is technically a microwave. They are all Electromagnetic waves. Light, sound, radio all fall into the same catagory just at different frequencies. REGARDLESS. This is a hoax. I don't care what this vid shows.

    By hueseph [Affiliate User] 1213723361 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • actually, you can ...

    actually, you can now but a foil that shields from EMF, search for Magnetic Shielding Foil, it blocks 75 percent of EMF.

    By RareMusicVids [Affiliate User] 1213717704 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Mobile phones don't ...

    Mobile phones don't use microwaves. They use VHF radio. But yes, radio waves can kill, very easily.

    By Thomaaaas [Affiliate User] 1213715630 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • spambutcher, you ...

    spambutcher, you should start selling tinfoil hats to these morons, you'd make a fortune!

    By Markovich2 [Affiliate User] 1213705660 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It's a money make ...

    It's a money make deal with phone companies and mais farmers. To boost the selings...
    The trick is tricky.
    A microwave tube unther the tabel is switch on.
    The microwave coing true the tabel.

    It's a good one.... ;)

    By arjunus [Affiliate User] 1213693152 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Had LG niet het ...

    Had LG niet het hoogste SAR level ?

    By arjunus [Affiliate User] 1213685673 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • phone is an LG ...

    phone is an LG Flare on Virgin Mobile.

    Alignment was just intuitive. Think this test was further in distance than my prior - may be part of why it took so long.

    By spambutcher [Affiliate User] 1213664086 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • metal thing is a " ...

    metal thing is a "helping hand" from radio shack - nothing exciting there.

    I'll also point out that I was touching it just a few seconds beforehand - would have to get pretty dang hot pretty quick.

    By spambutcher [Affiliate User] 1213663891 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Obviously it's not ...

    Obviously it's not fake since your cell has already fried half of your brain. Do you have to point your head toward a cell tower to get signal? Besides that, when a cellphone rings, it's receiving not sending microwaves.

    By hueseph [Affiliate User] 1213625979 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • I don't know if its ...

    I don't know if its fake or not but have you ever consider that he could heat the corn from the metal thing in some way instead using the cell phone??

    I don't know, just an idea

    By crispt9 [Affiliate User] 1213617418 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Hi Spambutcher, ...

    Hi Spambutcher, could you help us out here a bit?
    Is this really popped with only a mobile phone?
    If so, do you know the frequency of your phone? And how did you choose the distance and alignment?
    (i tried with 2 phones to no avail)

    By wantscookie [Affiliate User] 1213597577 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • I'm not sure if ...

    I'm not sure if this is fake or not, but if it is fake, why has the media been so focused on telling us it's fake?

    I mean, it's just a stupid little youtube video, yet every single news station decided to cover it for some reason.

    Huh

    Why should they care about some fake youtube video?

    By MooooonDemon [Affiliate User] 1213567794 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • It MUST be the type ...

    It MUST be the type of phone, because I have a relatively new Samsung T319 and cannot replicate this. I also tried this at work with 5 phones, all different models, and could not replicate it on either a wood or metal surface... Have you tried using different models to test if this is possible?

    By prettypaperpusher [Affiliate User] 1213557611 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • well... if i need ...

    well... if i need to pop popcorn i ussualy just use the microwave

    By wa11nutz [Affiliate User] 1213534538 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • you were able to ...

    you were able to make a popcorn kernal open just by pointing a cell phone at it? can you video it?

    By RareMusicVids [Affiliate User] 1213481780 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • k i just tried this ...

    k i just tried this with one old style and a kernal opened not popped

    By catkittyneko [Affiliate User] 1213479158 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • true

    true

    By lalizrd1 [Affiliate User] 1213430618 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • fake

    fake

    By akass4sin [Affiliate User] 1213425732 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • The human body is ...

    The human body is what, 60%-70% water? Microwaves work by heating the moisture inside the popcorn or whatever you're trying to heat. Cellphones broadcast omnidirectionally. You would feel the heat if this was in any way true. It's fake. It wouldn't surprise me if this was paid for by Cardo.

    By hueseph [Affiliate User] 1213358136 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • normaly this is NOT ...

    normaly this is NOT possible. Why?
    Well, sellphone's send out waves. In this case, microwaves (about 6 mHz or something)
    and popcorn only easily pops at about some thousands of them. So on a belgian show they tried this with 4 selphones and it didn't work.

    By juijjuij [Affiliate User] 1213355847 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • If you learn ...

    If you learn advanced physics, this is a near impossibility.

    By bjchua [Affiliate User] 1213353773 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • If you want me to ...

    If you want me to believe it, first give me lots of pot, and then stop using metal and gloves, just put the popcorn on the table....
    And if its true, ill be very pleased to call you wherever you are arround the world just to fry your brain.

    By videosMedios [Affiliate User] 1213341648 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
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