Making popcorn pop with your mobile phone...

[AlexKP]

Anyone seen this before?

Or can you explain it?

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/portab...

[Gaspode]

It's a trick. There's a magnetron from a microwave oven under the table.

[D14 AYS]

[branflakes]

Full explanation here (scroll down to the bottom):

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

Edited by branflakes on Sunday 8th March 20:59

[AlexKP]

Gaspode said:

It's a trick. There's a magnetron from a microwave oven under the table.

Interesting you should say that - I wondered if it might be something along those lines.

Do you know that to be true - or is it a guess?

Does a magnetron not need to have the energy focussed within a cage? And pretty dangerous for the unshielded participants I would have thought?

[Famous Graham]

You really are a gullible fool.

And you're not the first :
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[AlexKP]

branflakes said:

Full explanation here (scroll down to the bottom):

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

Edited by branflakes on Sunday 8th March 20:59

Aahh! The power of Pistonheads.

Clever editing though.

[M@T.R]

I'd assume there is something hot under the table, or there is something very hot above the table. Phones don't produce enough energy, it's a hoax.

[AlexKP]

Famous Graham said:

You really are a gullible fool.

And you're not the first :
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

I knew it had to be a trick - I recall the Brainiac episodes with the egg and the caravan full of petrol fumes.

But it is still a cleverlittle video.

[Gaspode]

anonymous said:

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Yup, that's how it can be done. Seems a bit dangerous to me, too, so I shan't be trying it for myself.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1399627/cell_phone_p...