Cell phone popcorn popper

Tom Kirkham · #1 (**permalink**) 07-12-2008, 11:08 AM

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5o...e-microon_news

Joe@KMS · #2 (**permalink**) 07-12-2008, 11:22 AM

http://www.snopes.com/science/cookegg.asp

While its a fun video, it is false....

Snopes is always our friend with this kind of stuff.

427 S/O · #3 (**permalink**) 07-12-2008, 01:50 PM

Whew!, thought for a moment I might have drain bamage..

392cobra · #4 (**permalink**) 07-12-2008, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 427 S/O

Whew!, thought for a moment I might have drain bamage..

Perry,
I found it best not to jump to conclusions too fast.

wtm442 · #5 (**permalink**) 07-12-2008, 05:49 PM

Tom
How much popcorn do you want?

Joe Wicked · #6 (**permalink**) 07-13-2008, 08:32 AM

Since cell phones are what I do for a living, I have been sent this so many times. The way I explain it to people is like this:

A GSM cell phone will put out 1 watt at maximum power and a CDMA cell phone will put out 1/4 watt at maximum power. This means that with 4 GSM phones that are just at the outside edge of any tower and putting out the maximum power you have almost 4 watts of RF power. My Microwave is 1300 watts and it takes about 1 min on high power to start to pop popcorn. This does not even get into the frequencies involved as it does make a difference as well.