Making popcorn with cellphones. Is this real?

[Barfo]

Has anyone tried this? I'm kind of thinking it's fake. The kernels pop because of the heat no?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5odhh_pop-corn-telephone-portable-microon

 

[preslove]

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

Some colleagues at work were fooled by it, too.

 

[hanoverphist]

my mom tried to get me and my bro to come over and try it out, lol. we both sent the snopes link almost at the same time.

 

[Murloc]

it's fake, it should pop your head too.

 

[olds]

Of course it's not real. Anyone with .10 of a brain knows that. Jeez.

 

[geno]

If you have to ask...you're probably gullible.

 

[jme5343]

If you have to ask...you're probably gullible.

Gullible isn't even a real word. Look it up if you don't believe me.

 

[mmntech]

Sure you can make popcorn with your cell phone. Take out the battery, puncture it, heat kernels.

 

[lord_emperor]

I don't believe I'm doing this...

The power output of cell phones is limited to 2 watts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_health

Popcorn must reach 232 degrees celcius to pop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn

I don't know what a cork kernel weighs, so I'll assume 1 gram and that it's mostly water (way generous estimate!!!!).

Heating this fatass popcorn kernel from room temperature to 232 degrees requires 212 calories or 890 joules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie

If 4 cell phones were set up with some kind of focusing dish 100% efficiently directing their power at the popcorn kernel, and the popcorn kernel were suspended in a perfect vacuum so it couldn't lose heat to its environment the process would take 111 seconds.

The corn in the video pops in about 20 seconds.

 

[lord_emperor]

I don't believe I'm doing this...

The power output of cell phones is limited to 2 watts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_health

Popcorn must reach 232 degrees celcius to pop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn

I don't know what a cork kernel weighs, so I'll assume 1 gram and that it's mostly water (way generous estimate!!!!).

Heating this fatass popcorn kernel from room temperature to 232 degrees requires 212 calories or 890 joules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie

If 4 cell phones were set up with some kind of focusing dish 100% efficiently directing their power at the popcorn kernel, and the popcorn kernel were suspended in a perfect vacuum so it couldn't lose heat to its environment the process would take 111 seconds.

The corn in the video pops in about 20 seconds.

 

[Oil]

no

 

[DrPizza]

I think I'm going to disagree with that wikipedia article, at least the part about the temperature. Many oils have a smoke point below the temperature claimed necessary for popcorn to pop, but the popcorn still pops without the oil ever reaching that temperature.

 

[Pocatello]

I read it as "making pr0n with cellphones..."

 

[dfuze]

if it's on the internet it has to be real

 

[Squisher]

I don't believe I'm doing this...

The power output of cell phones is limited to 2 watts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_health

Popcorn must reach 232 degrees celcius to pop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn

I don't know what a cork kernel weighs, so I'll assume 1 gram and that it's mostly water (way generous estimate!!!!).

Heating this fatass popcorn kernel from room temperature to 232 degrees requires 212 calories or 890 joules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie

If 4 cell phones were set up with some kind of focusing dish 100% efficiently directing their power at the popcorn kernel, and the popcorn kernel were suspended in a perfect vacuum so it couldn't lose heat to its environment the process would take 111 seconds.

The corn in the video pops in about 20 seconds.

Get fucking down. Sounds like a great focal point for a party, 100 cell phones all around a kernel in a vacuum tube.