Pop Corn téléphone portable micro-ondes

[joeblow]

Pop Corn téléphone portable micro-ondes

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[Christopher Marlowe]

Physicist Debunks Cellphone Popcorn Viral Videos
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/cellphones-cant/

YouTube videos that show a group of friends apparently cooking kernels of popcorn with their cellphones have been viewed more than a million times since they were uploaded last week.

The clever parlor trick (see embedded clip) looks amazing enough, but there's a hitch: It's not physically possible, according to University of Virginia physics professor Louis Bloomfield.

"[The videos] are cute," said Bloomfield in a phone conversation Monday. "But that's never gonna happen."

In a microwave oven, energy excites the water inside popcorn kernels until it turns into highly pressurized 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.

"It would hurt like crazy," Bloomfield said. "Cellphones probably warm your tissues, but studies indicate that's not injurious."

Bloomfield, author of How Everything Works: Making Physics Out of the Ordinary, dismissed theories bubbling up in comment threads about the videos that suggest harmonious vibrations are heating the corn.

"Ringing the phones doesn't help because they're interfering with each other and receiving a signal [from a cellphone tower] — not transmitting it," he said.
Furthermore, while it is possible to heat with sound, it's not likely to happen at the low volume emitted by a mobile phone. "It would be like gathering opera singers together to sing, and trying to make the corn pop," Bloomfield said.

So, what's really causing the kernels to ricochet off the table in the YouTube clips?
Bloomfield suggests tricky video editing or even a covert heating element beneath the table. Debunker website Snopes.com also points out that cooking popcorn with cellphones is impossible (same goes for eggs).

The popcorn videos, like the slew of YouTube clips showcasing ordinary people performing extraordinary feats that came before them, has the distinct markings of a viral-marketing campaign. Let's look at the facts.

First, all four videos — French,
Japanese and two American editions — were posted to the YouTube accounts of users  bobtel08 and benzin513 (with French descriptions) within several days of one another.

Second, a cryptic bit of commentary posted alongside one of the videos says: "We tried but didn't make it ... maybe only with phone brands or models???" It could be a subtle hint to get viewers to notice the phones more than the stunt. And, indeed, several comments have suggested the phones all appear to be similar makes and models, possibly Nokias or Sony Ericsson mobiles.

For now, however, the clandestine origin of the videos is under wraps. Bobtel08, benzin513 and Nokia did not immediately respond to Wired.com's requests for comment, and a representative from Sony Ericsson North America said he wasn't aware of the videos at all.

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Company Fesses Up to Corn-Popping Cellphone Clips
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/bluetooth-compa/

Bluetooth headset retailer Cardo Systems has claimed ownership of the hot viral videos that show people appearing to pop popcorn with their cellphones.

In a video posted to YouTube on Wednesday titled "Cellphone Popcorn Mystery Resolved," (embedded, right) an advert for the company's line of headsets follows the grainy footage of friends aiming phones at uncooked corn that's been tallying millions of views on YouTube.

"The videos are spreading like wildfire, and becoming something of an urban legend," said Kathryn Rhodes, the national marketing manager at Cardo Systems in a phone interview Thursday. "[The viral-marketing campaign] been really successful at capturing the attention of all different kinds of users."

The popcorn videos are the latest viral goofs to catch on with internet video fans, and they've spawned clever spinoff clips in which, for instance, an iPhone surrounded by popcorn explodes.

From jeans and basketball shoes to summer movies, the steadily growing onslaught of stealth marketing — or "murketing," as New York Times Magazine writer Rob Walker dubbed it — is delivering via a never-ending stream of crazy stunts (and, sometimes, head-scratching bafflement).

Rhodes said she and other Cardo staffers are "avid YouTube users," so selecting the online video portal as a vehicle for the brand was only natural.

She revealed that Cardo commissioned the videos, and a marketing agency in Paris called LastFools created the hoax clips, which have grabbed more than 4 million views since uploading began May 28.

"Making popcorn with a cellphone happens only in the movies," says a statement on the Cardo Systems' site. "However, if you use a Cardo Bluetooth headset for your mobile calls, you can reduce power output by up to 99 percent."

Wired.com debunked the video as fake with the help of physicist Louis Bloomfield, and speculated that a video-editing program or hidden heating pads caused the popcorn to pop. We're still awaiting word from Cardo as to how exactly the ruse was pulled off; we'll update you as soon as we know.

Many thanks to our readers for alerting us to the Cardo connection!

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[joeblow]

Moved to the Nonsense subforum.

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