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This kind of "advertising" while effective,...

It is interesting to note, that while these videos are popular, neither Cardio ( The maker) or any other headset manufacturer has reported any noticeable increase in sales since the release of these ads.

So why they are getting passed around, these videos are not actually getting people to make the connection that Cardio was hoping for.

That if anything would hopefully spell the death of this sort of video. When it comes to viral videos as advertising I much prefer the "will it blend" sort. You know that it is pushing a product but it is entertaining enough to watch anyway.

People are still posting about this

All right I have heard a lot of comotion from this myth I know they confessed but still why has this myth been so popular if you think its true thats great but if you think its not I think you are on the right track . Moe1111111112

i agree it all crazy i would not use a cell phone if it could cook my brain as i use it there is no magnetron or heat gun or whatever in a cell phone it should be forgotten and dropped

I have a hard time believing you, the YOUTUBE video that i saw, from Asia, was no fake or advirtising thing. You use 4 phones and 6 kurnels of pop corn, plain, and what i saw was 2 phones on vibrate, and 1 one ringer, and then 1 of them was vibrating and the ringer on as well. The top of the phones made a square and then the popcorn went into the middle. And if you still do not believe me, then how would they have done it?

junk junk junk busted no good u are the weakest link cell phone popping pop corn crap

what a drag let's take some legal action

I totally think the popcorn by cell phone myth should be tested on the show! I've tried it and got mixed results. PLEASE HELP!!!

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I've tried it and got mixed results.

How can you have mixed results? It either works or it doesn't.

Please clarify what your results were.

I've seen a video clip being passed by e-mail where non-Asian people popped 4 kernels with 3 cell phones.

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It takes a 1000W microwave 2-3 minutes to get popcorn hot enough to make it pop.

You might want to have your microwave oven serviced. My 700 oven will start poping corn in under a minute.

THIS IS NOT A MYTH!!!!
I showed this video to my biology teacher.....
next day he brings a couple of corn kernals and we volunteer our cellphones for the cause. so before i say it worked i'll say this!
In the electromagnetic spectrum there is something called "RADIO WAVES" radio waves are:

Radio waves generally are utilized by antennas of appropriate size (according to the principle of resonance), with wavelengths ranging from hundreds of meters to about one millimeter. They are used for transmission of data, via modulation. Television, mobile phones, MRI, wireless networking and amateur radio all use radio waves.

Radio waves can be made to carry information by varying a combination of the amplitude, frequency and phase of the wave within a frequency band and the use of the radio spectrum is regulated by many governments through frequency allocation. When EM radiation impinges upon a conductor, it couples to the conductor, travels along it, and induces an electric current on the surface of that conductor by exciting the electrons of the conducting material. This effect (the skin effect) is used in antennas. EM radiation may also cause certain molecules to absorb energy and thus to heat up, thus causing thermal effects and sometimes burns; this is exploited in microwave ovens.

Taken from Wiki!

So looking at that piece of information, let's look at another!!

Why does Popcorn pop?:

Although popcorn kernals may look totally dry, each kernel of popcorn actually has a tiny amount of water inside it. This water is stored inside a circle of soft starch inside the kernel's hard outer surface. As the kernel heats up, the water's molecules start to move faster and get farther away from each other; this molecular expansion is the same reason water turns into steam when you boil it. As the water expands it puts pressure against the hard starch. Something's gotta give - so eventually the water pressure wins out and the popcorn ruptures. The soft starch inside becomes inflated and bursts, flipping the kernel inside out to release the steam inside!

So! what have we learned:
Radiowaves, like microwaves, share the property causing water molecules to speed up. why does the popcorn need to be hot on the outside to rupture, just as long as the water molecules inside are being forced out, whether through heat or electromagnetic waves, the kernal will pop!

if this isn't enough evidence, test it yourself, take a couple of kernals to work or school and get your buddies to go along with it. if it doesn't work, please post

Cmon people... and this is comming from a junior member, how could this have been a publicity in the first place, to scare people that their brains will pop like corn?! I don't care what the TV tells me, i like to believe what i see, especially if it's backed up by science!
Anyways, yeah. just try for yourselves!

I eat cingul-AIR popped. Having some right now, in fact.

Yep.

Air-popped corn by cingul.

Nothin' better...

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Cmon people... and this is comming from a junior member, how could this have been a publicity in the first place, to scare people that their brains will pop like corn?!

That's exactly what they wanted to do. Scare you into thinking that a cellphone could affect your brain so you'd run out and buy a device (bluetooth) that would allow you to use a cellphone without holding it next to your head.

Oh and we don't need to try it for ourselves. Why? Because

The company already admitted it was a hoax!!

Not only that, but they showed how they did it.

haha i was about 2 post it bc i didnt c this

why do ppl think this is real??? lots of things are fake and sum are real but i dont think this would work

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THIS IS NOT A MYTH!!!!
I showed this video to my biology teacher.....

Oh brudder!

Did your biology teacher also happen to mention that at 0.14g per kernel and 15% moisture content, even using the maximum SAR rate of 1.6W/kg, the water in the popcorn would be absorbing 0.0000336 joules per second, and since water has a specific heat capacity of 4.1855 joules per gram per Kelvin degree, it would take 2615.9375 seconds for the cell signal to raise the temperature of the water in the Kernal by one degree? That's 43 minutes 36 seconds to raise the temperature of the water in the kernal by one degree.

Starting at 20°C, you need to raise it 80 C°, and then factor in the latent heat of vaporisation and the pressure effects. Plus, there's also the problem of the kernal re-radiating the heat faster than it's absorbing it.



And you wonder why we think you're lying???

k so what is up with all the people put this myth down. Does anyone on here know exactly how cell phones work cause u can't tell me cell phones don't produce radiation. every thing that use energy produce some radiation. Also there have been plenty of myths on mythbusters that don't work but thats the point to bust myth not prove myth that u know work. If you try to bust a myth you know works it was never really a myth.So i say mythbusters should do and hope they do, and when it doesn't work increase the power in till something blows up.

[quote]That's the whole point, to get people passing the video around and to get them to think that normal cell phones are somehow dangerous.[quote]

Do u really think people are going to think that after watching the video.



Forgive any spelling mistakes I may have made.