Comments on: Revenge of the urban myth part 2 – Cooking popcorn with mobile phones http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/offbeat-news/revenge-of-the-urban-myth-part-2-cooking-popcorn-with-mobile-phones/ Get the latest news, reviews and info in the Mobile World Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:40:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: TechnicalMarkus http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/offbeat-news/revenge-of-the-urban-myth-part-2-cooking-popcorn-with-mobile-phones/comment-page-1/#comment-11678 TechnicalMarkus Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:40:28 +0000 http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/offbeat-news/revenge-of-the-urban-myth-part-2-cooking-popcorn-with-mobile-phones/#comment-11678 Basically, it all turned out to be a viral marketing campaign done by a company that makes Bluetooth headsets. You can almost HEAR their thought processes: Ad Exec 1: "Hey, let's fool everyone into thinking that mobile phones cook popcorn, and will cook their brains, then we can sell them headsets!" Ad Exec 2: "Good call, have another daquiri!" ...or something like that, anyway. Basically, it all turned out to be a viral marketing campaign done by a company that makes Bluetooth headsets.

You can almost HEAR their thought processes:

Ad Exec 1: “Hey, let’s fool everyone into thinking that mobile phones cook popcorn, and will cook their brains, then we can sell them headsets!”

Ad Exec 2: “Good call, have another daquiri!”

…or something like that, anyway.

]]> By: maya http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/offbeat-news/revenge-of-the-urban-myth-part-2-cooking-popcorn-with-mobile-phones/comment-page-1/#comment-11672 maya Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:56:47 +0000 http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/offbeat-news/revenge-of-the-urban-myth-part-2-cooking-popcorn-with-mobile-phones/#comment-11672 wtf dont get it..!!! wtf

dont get it..!!!

]]> By: carl http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/offbeat-news/revenge-of-the-urban-myth-part-2-cooking-popcorn-with-mobile-phones/comment-page-1/#comment-5097 carl Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:18:02 +0000 http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/offbeat-news/revenge-of-the-urban-myth-part-2-cooking-popcorn-with-mobile-phones/#comment-5097 Don't be silly!!!!!! When cooking popcorn in a microwave oven, energy excites the water inside popcorn kernels until it turns into highly pressurised gas, causing the kernels to pop. If mobile phones emitted that much energy, the water in the fingers of people holding them would heat up and "It would burn like crazy," So, what's really causing the kernels to ricochet off the table in the YouTube clip? Tricky video editing or even a heating element beneath the table, NO those idiots have dismantled a microwave oven. If you want to cook your brains aswell as popcorn for the sake of a YouTube video, then dismantle a microwave oven, expose the microwave tube, extend the 3000V wires so that the microwave tube can be placed under a table as shown in the clip. Then simply pretend that your mobile has cooked the popcorn. Make sure you record it and place your video on you tube so that people like me think that you can cook popcorn with a mobile phone. Don’t be silly!!!!!!

When cooking popcorn in a microwave oven, energy excites the water inside popcorn kernels until it turns into highly pressurised gas, causing the kernels to pop. If mobile phones emitted that much energy, the water in the fingers of people holding them would heat up and “It would burn like crazy,” So, what’s really causing the kernels to ricochet off the table in the YouTube clip? Tricky video editing or even a heating element beneath the table, NO those idiots have dismantled a microwave oven.

If you want to cook your brains aswell as popcorn for the sake of a YouTube video, then dismantle a microwave oven, expose the microwave tube, extend the 3000V wires so that the microwave tube can be placed under a table as shown in the clip. Then simply pretend that your mobile has cooked the popcorn. Make sure you record it and place your video on you tube so that people like me think that you can cook popcorn with a mobile phone.

]]> By: TechnicalMarkus http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/offbeat-news/revenge-of-the-urban-myth-part-2-cooking-popcorn-with-mobile-phones/comment-page-1/#comment-3764 TechnicalMarkus Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:12:05 +0000 http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/offbeat-news/revenge-of-the-urban-myth-part-2-cooking-popcorn-with-mobile-phones/#comment-3764 D'oh, you're not supposed to say it, you're supposed to kid on you're some uber-smart detecive type. Mind you, you DID solve it by detective work, so it still stands. And kudos for the mental image of you and 4 mates trying to get it to work at home. That's something I shall cherish! :-P D’oh, you’re not supposed to say it, you’re supposed to kid on you’re some uber-smart detecive type.

Mind you, you DID solve it by detective work, so it still stands.

And kudos for the mental image of you and 4 mates trying to get it to work at home. That’s something I shall cherish! :-P

]]> By: greg http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/offbeat-news/revenge-of-the-urban-myth-part-2-cooking-popcorn-with-mobile-phones/comment-page-1/#comment-3755 greg Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:25:04 +0000 http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/offbeat-news/revenge-of-the-urban-myth-part-2-cooking-popcorn-with-mobile-phones/#comment-3755 lol detective I was just angry about being a victim of the viral (i tried it at home with 4 friends) and decided to solve the puzzle :) lol detective
I was just angry about being a victim of the viral (i tried it at home with 4 friends) and decided to solve the puzzle :)

]]> By: TechnicalMarkus http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/offbeat-news/revenge-of-the-urban-myth-part-2-cooking-popcorn-with-mobile-phones/comment-page-1/#comment-3745 TechnicalMarkus Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:16:17 +0000 http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/offbeat-news/revenge-of-the-urban-myth-part-2-cooking-popcorn-with-mobile-phones/#comment-3745 greg: TOP detective work! Excellent stuff, sir! Anth: Although we now know what it actually IS for, I like your idea more. lol greg:
TOP detective work! Excellent stuff, sir!

Anth:
Although we now know what it actually IS for, I like your idea more. lol

]]> By: Anth http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/offbeat-news/revenge-of-the-urban-myth-part-2-cooking-popcorn-with-mobile-phones/comment-page-1/#comment-3735 Anth Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:09:30 +0000 http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/offbeat-news/revenge-of-the-urban-myth-part-2-cooking-popcorn-with-mobile-phones/#comment-3735 Maybe it is sensational disinformtation to mask the current study linking cellphones with brain tumors? Maybe it is sensational disinformtation to mask the current study linking cellphones with brain tumors?

]]> By: greg http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/offbeat-news/revenge-of-the-urban-myth-part-2-cooking-popcorn-with-mobile-phones/comment-page-1/#comment-3733 greg Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:34:56 +0000 http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/offbeat-news/revenge-of-the-urban-myth-part-2-cooking-popcorn-with-mobile-phones/#comment-3733 I found the answer to the pop corn viral videos :) It was a viral , see my site http://www.weberence.com/2008/06/12/the-answer-to-pop-corn-mobile-viral/ I found the answer to the pop corn viral videos :)

It was a viral , see my site

http://www.weberence.com/2008/06/12/the-answer-to-pop-corn-mobile-viral/

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