Can mobiles pop popcorn?

[Mao]

See for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQPYjCvglx0

I wonder how many people will actually believe that

[AppleXY]

what absolute bs.

[phagist_]

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23916168-5001021,00.html

[TrueLight]

man that so crap... but i dare someone to try it lolz

[gta007]

Proven here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=przkFZJSkOc&feature=related

[jsimmo]

Fake mobile videos have viewers popping mad

CONTROVERSIAL YouTube videos purporting to expose the dangers of mobile phones have been exposed as fakes.

Part of an internet marketing campaign, each of the four videos shows kernals of popcorn allegedly being cooked by the radiation emitted by three mobile phones.

But the videos, which have had more than 11 million hits on YouTube, are viral advertisements produced by a French agency hired to boost sales for mobile phone accessories manufacturer Cardo Systems.

The videos, filmed by LastFools, feature various "optical illusions" and "magic tricks" designed to suggest mobile phones emit enough radiation to cook popcorn.

The claim is false.

LastFools managing director Frederic Chast says he designed the viral ad campaign in the hope of garnering his client just 30,000 hits.

Viral advertising is designed to be so engaging that consumers pass it on to friends.

The videos have angered some people who, in online forums, describe Cardo Systems as having behaved deceptively.

[bturville]

Proven here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=przkFZJSkOc&feature=related

nice find, haha.

[misskaraleah]

The table is clearly heated underneath and they clevery timed the calling of their mobile phones.

[bucket]

it doesnt.
funnily enough just yesterday my friend and her mum told me that they tried it out a few times and well it didn't work.
theres definitely some kind of trick to it

[xox.happy1.xox]

They tried doing it on the Today show a while ago, all that we saw were some very distraught faces on the Today crew.

[bubble sunglasses]

   Some singing can break wine glasses so I don't see why not

[phagist_]

Ok.
First of all the mobile phones are receiving signals, not transmitting.

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."

1. Cell phones are the very, very low end of the microwave range. ~.8GHZ. Microwave ovens operate at ~2.4 ghz. Neither cell phone nor microwave oven radiation is ionizing. It can't actually do anything to you other than heat you (and I'm not sure a cell phone's frequency would work for that).
2. I don't know what cell phone manufacturers say, but cell phones put out up to 1 watt of microwave energy, omnidirectionally. To equal the power output of a microwave oven, you'd need 1,000 cel phones , packed into a 2 cubic foot box, with a farraday cage around it. There is no danger whatsoever from cell phone radiation. Doctors (credible ones, anyway) most certainly do not make any recommendations about cell phone usage.

[phagist_]

   Some singing can break wine glasses so I don't see why not

That's just like me saying I can punch a hole in a solid brick wall because I can do so to a sheet of paper.

[bubble sunglasses]

 hmm, I'd say it takes more force to break glass than pop popcorn, not that i'm a physicist or anything

[phagist_]

I think you missed the point, I was using it as an analogy, to highlight the hyperbole. To break wine glasses is using resonance from sound waves, the apparent 'popping' of the corn was using radio waves (not sure if it makes a difference)

more than enough evidence in this thread indicates that the 'popping' was fake and it has been admitted that it was a part of a marketing campaign.