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Video: Popping Your Brain Cells With Your Cell Phone - Watch This!
Video: Popping Your Brain Cells With Your Cell Phone - 20 Seconds

And Watch This Video
Téléphone Portable + Maïs = Pop-corn 2 Minutes 32 Seconds

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Various Comments...

Thanx Andy, why do you think there are so many 'brain-deads' trudging around?????? LOL They are called 'law-abiding tax-payers' !!! (= There is a chip, you can purchase,that neutralizes the EMFs, tho. Nick.

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spread the word - how many brain cells do you zap each day

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If dried corn reacts to 'low-level' microwaves like this, then what's going on inside your brain cavity...!

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MOBILE COOK POPCORN, AND YOUR BRAIN.

Hi People..
This is why I got rid of my mobile 13 years ago. My head hurt after using it.So does everyones but they ignore the pain or dullness, in favour of ''convenience''

Facts are, we functioned perfectly well without mob-lies, and all they are is another gadget, or poisoner..

They also are a locating device, a personal gps.

Its a sign of incredible stupidity, brought on by mobile use, that these people arent horrified by the fact that their communicating device, that they place 5 cms away from their brains...... also cooks popcorn, aint no trick, I think I know where one of the WMDS are...

Please git rid of your mobile asap, peeeat

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These videos are all about 20 seconds each, check them out.

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=kAd0aWxs7kQ (French)

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=ju5yIFu4yY8 (Chinese)

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=V94shlqPlSI (English)

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Cell Phone Popcorn?
By Urban Legends

Tuesday June 10, 2008

Screenshot of YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V94shlqPlSI Cell phone popcornQuestion of the hour: can you pop popcorn with cell phones? A YouTube video closing in on 1 million views this week purports to show a group of people doing just that. In the video, three phones are aimed at a few kernels of popcorn arranged in the middle of a table; the cell phone numbers are dialed; the phones ring; the corn pops instantly. There is no detectable trickery.

Trickery there must be, however, because, as a simple matter of logic, if your cell phone emits enough electromagnetic energy to pop popcorn, it should also make your head explode. When was the last time that happened to you?

Alex Boese http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/cell_phones_cook_popcorn/ figures there must be a heating element hidden under the table. A physics professor consulted by Wired.com http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/cellphones-cant.html concurs, suggesting there may have been some sneaky editing involved as well.

Some folks think the video -- which is actually just one of several posted in different languages at roughly the same time -- may be part of a viral marketing campaign for some as yet unknown company. Alex Boese points out that the premise is reminiscent of a widely circulated satirical piece many mistook for fact a few years ago claiming it's possible to cook an egg with a cell phone. The yolk was on them: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_cook_egg_cell_phones.htm

Update: The videos were indeed part of a viral marketing campaign for Cardo Systems, makers of Bluetooth headsets. See: http://www.cardosystems.com/pop

Read more about it:

• Popping Popcorn with Cell Phones - YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V94shlqPlSI

• Cell Phones Cook Popcorn - Museum of Hoaxes: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/cell_phones_cook_popcorn/

• Physicist Debunks Cellphone Popcorn Viral Videos - Wired.com: http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/cellphones-cant.html

• How to Cook an Egg with Your Cell Phone - Netlore Archive: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_cook_egg_cell_phones.htm

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Comments

June 10, 2008 at 2:17 pm
(1) Marshall Dudley says:

Of course there is insufficient energy to heat the kernels enough to make them pop. I see no evidence that the kernels are being heated at all. The normal electromagnetic wave travels off the sides of the antenna, not the top. What comes off the top would be a scalar wave, which is reported when interacting with other scalar waves in the microwave region to cause disassociation of water into H2 and O2. The amount of energy required for this is trivial compared with what is needed to heat a kernel, thus discussion of energy and heat is really irrelevnt to the possible physics involved.

That said, I have tried it, but could not get it to work with 3 Verizon phones.

Marshall

June 10, 2008 at 5:37 pm
(2) Josey2006 says:

Looks like fun!

June 10, 2008 at 6:41 pm
(3) lorenzo woodley says:

its obviously been proven that this can happen but here is another question is this dangerous that we all have cellphones that can potentially
give us harmful doses of radiation

June 11, 2008 at 12:34 am
(4) Greg says:

In the videos it takes about 10 seconds to pop what looks like about 7 kernels. OK! So try that in a microwave oven. 10 seconds no joy! 20, 30, 60 still no pop! So is it possible for a cell phone to have more power than a microwave oven? Or conversely, is it possible for a microwave oven to less powerful than a cell phone? Then why can cell phones run on batteries and microwave ovens have to pull into the wall?

Truth is that cell phones use and emit less than one thousandth the power that of a microwave oven. So for a cell phone to cook pop corn in less than 1 tenth the time is more than 5 orders of magnitude out of the realm of possibility. This would be roughly similar to trying to pass off a basketball as a golf ball. Well with a camera that I guess is easy. Sure would like to see the club after you tee off!

June 11, 2008 at 5:48 am
(5) sawi says:

this table is covered with cloth, and in japan they have a heater under them (usually). also, an infra red beam could be directed at the kernels from above

June 11, 2008 at 6:48 am
(6) John says:

This has been proven?? Hahahahahaha! Certainly you can’t mean that YouTube video; those are never fakes! Anyway, I am very surprised that this has received the attention it has. It is simply not possible, and not really that amusing that people would fall for it! I would go with the heater under the table hypothesis.

June 11, 2008 at 11:40 am
(7) Paula says:

I am so glad there are such smart people out there to debunk this. I will get a bunch of emails warning me about the dangers of cell phone use, from people who will believe what they are told. I can point here to debunk it and save some innocent but gullible people some stress!

June 11, 2008 at 2:46 pm
(8) Nick says:

This is far from a controlled environment for a scientific test, the most notable issue being a table covered with a tablecloth, which could conceal a heater or otherwise-gimmicked surface. Secondly, if you actually look at the inside of a microwave oven, you will find an aperture covered by opaque plastic, which is a waveguide - without that, microwaves cannot travel from their source point in sufficient strength over short distances to be effective. And, finally, as has been pointed out, even a 1200W oven takes close to 30 seconds before kernels pop, and that’s when they’re tightly packed in a bag and covered with semi-gelled butter flavoring.

This is nothing more than a clever magic trick. Scientific control would require an uncovered table, phones supplied by the researcher (not the claimant), and instrumentation to measure microwave radiation.

Lastly … cell phones emit radio-frequency, not microwave band.

June 11, 2008 at 3:56 pm
(9) Gary says:

First I was amazed at the alien looking into the window, now it’s the cellphone that pops popcorn. What’s next?

June 12, 2008 at 12:19 am
(10) Dox says:

If this was true, there would be no 1-year or longer contracts. Nobody would live long enough to fulfill them. Nice hoax, but a hoax, indeed.

June 12, 2008 at 7:20 am
(11) miblaker says:

YES It’s Fake !
I found out who made these 4 little movies showing popcorn and cell phones. It’s CardoWireless ! Check their vids on youtube : http://www.youtube.com/user/CardoWireless

June 12, 2008 at 1:18 pm
(12) KC says:

It’s human nature to accept claims like these as facts. They add intrigue to our lives, and fuel the conspiracy that the truth is being hidden from us.

June 13, 2008 at 9:13 am
(13) Froggy says:

If this was in fact true these cell phones would cook our brains. This would result in obvious, immediate consequences. We would have people driving on the road talking on their cell phone and as their brains cooked they would do dumb things and cause accidents. People would be walking around shouting into their cell phone having a private conversation. I am sure many other things would be noticeable.

Does George W. use a cell phone a lot? That would really explain some things.

June 13, 2008 at 9:57 am
(14) ParisH says:

The other day, like, I was talking to my BFF on the cellie and guess what? The chocolate bar in my pocket melted and, like, it wasn’t even hot outside! That’s haught!

June 15, 2008 at 9:50 pm
(15) Dave says:

The comments about the minimal power, the antenna power from the side and time to pop the kernel are good, but the real caveat here is the fact that the kernels pop without ever answering the calls.

When a cell phone is waiting for a call, it sends and receives short messages to and from the towers so it can be found when someone calls. The energy from these message are quite small. Even when the phone rings, no continuous carrier wave is established until sometime after the call is answered. Then would be the most likely time to pop popcorn (if the power was large enough - which it isn’t).

So as everyone with half a cell-fried brain should know - this is impossible!

June 15, 2008 at 10:05 pm
(16) Dave says:

This hoax may be something that should be investigated by the authorities. The only way to pop those kernels on the table is to use a heating element or a microwave source.

A heating element would have melted the table or caught the tablecloth on fire before the kernels had popped. The only other explanation is the use of a high powered microwave transmitter under the table, which would have exposed the participants to dangerous levels of radiation. The location of this device would put it close to their genitals and could have a devastating effect on the people shown and their offspring.

This behavior will cause other people to do stupid things just to become famous. Despite the novelty of the idea, this is too dangerous to be funny. I see big lawsuits coming from this.

June 17, 2008 at 12:39 pm
(17) acikul says:

Yes Dave! And somebody should sue Hollywood for showing Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling, right? People could get hurt trying to do the same….geeez.

June 18, 2008 at 12:11 am
(18) Still Not Good says:

Yes, the videos are fake, BUT,

66 studies have found an increased risk of brain cancer among cell phone users….

http://www.willthomasonline.net/willthomasonline/The_Evidence_Is_In.html

June 18, 2008 at 2:36 am
(19) Daniel says:

Yes, I have taken a physics class that has discussed cell phones in one of the labs. A cell phone does use far less power, but none the less, cell phones do use microwaves as a way to transmit data.
I agree and have heard of the studies that show tumors in areas of the brain, legs & genitals (where people keep their phones) as well as an activation of genes that progress cancers and other diseases within the body.

June 18, 2008 at 6:31 am
(20) Chris says:

“Does George W. use a cell phone a lot? That would really explain some things.”

I’m sure he does-BTW, Al Gore invented the cellphone.

June 18, 2008 at 8:15 am
(21) Vic says:

Dearest David,
When was the last time 3 cell phones were pointed at your or anyone elses head (triangulated) and dialed. That was a brash and meaningless statement.

June 18, 2008 at 12:17 pm
(22) Casey says:

Wow way to over analyse this. All you have to do is get some Adobe software, such as Photoshop, Premier, and After Effect.

HOW TO DO THIS:
Take a a picture of a peice of pop corn, and use Photoshop to cut that peice out of the picture. Transform it into a .PNG file for a high quality peice of popcorn with transparency.

Now Bring it into your Premier or After Effects software, apply motion blur to the peice of pop corn and motion tween it so it looks like it pops and moves off camera. Then cover up the table with one of the tools within the program to make it look like the seed isnt there anymore.

As you can see in the video, the pop corn leaves the screen with each pop. Giving the camera man time to throw a peice of pop corn onto the table so that it looks like he can pick it up..

Its not Science, its Art

Also how did she call 3 phones at once with one cell phone?

June 18, 2008 at 12:32 pm
(23) Casey says:

Plus did anyone notice every peice of pop corn flew away from the camera. Kind of like the camera man was throwing it.

June 18, 2008 at 4:00 pm
(24) John Cooper says:

Popcorn no, but it can cook an egg in the shell, one cell on iether side, that is true, do a story on that ? also for the many who stick thier heads in the sand every time stories like this appear, try doing a search on cell phone health danges what does the UK, France, Germany and the latest Japan have in common ? all came out with warnings on kids using cell phones ! better pay attention !

June 18, 2008 at 7:08 pm
(25) Scott Miller says:

Could do this with some lasers just out of camera range. There are several affordable units out now that are small, portable, and produce enough heat to light a match from afar. BTW, the egg thing never happened. Not saying cell phones are safe, but they can’t cook food, boil water, or prevent frostbite. Bluetooth however, can erase short term memory. Film at eleven.
June 19, 2008 at 12:29 am
(26) The Toxic Reverend says:

Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumours and calls on industry to take
immediate steps to reduce radiation

By Geoffrey Lean, The Independent news
Sunday, 30 March 2008

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news...

Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an
award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using
them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must
take “immediate steps” to reduce exposure to their radiation.

June 19, 2008 at 2:13 pm
(27) Michael says:

Oh my GOD!

People actually thought this was possible?

June 20, 2008 at 5:36 pm
(28) Hans Katan says:

I know a story that is more than 2000 years old and is as unbelievable as this hoax ,but is told over and over again .Nothing has changed since early Man .And the internet is full of stupidity it is a reflection of human kind .And the most stupid thing is that this hoax was made by a company that sells blue tooth earphones .Advertising the new religion?

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Link to this article: http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2008/06/10/cell-phone-popcorn.htm