Cooking Popcorn with a Cell Phone?
I never cease to be amazed by what shows up in our e-mail inbox. Today’s video clip shows an intimate gathering of friends who are just conducting a little experiment with their cell phones – trying to pop popcorn using the combined energy from their cell phones. Take a look at the video and then keep reading…
The first thing Alyssa (one of our crack science editors at Steve Spangler Science) does is to search snopes.com Within thirty seconds or so, she uncovered this article debunking the popcorn myth. Snopes.com goes into great detail (far more than anyone I know of) about the origins and connected myths. If nothing else, it’s a great resource to check out those too-good-to-be-true e-mails. In the future, just copy the subject heading from your e-mail into the “search” at snopes.com and read away.
But… you’ll have to admit, the hoax video looks pretty darn good. Care to share any cool videos from your inbox?
I AM ASTONSHED! IT´S TRUE ACTUALLY? I WOULD THINK THAT THE INFRARED OF CELL PHONE WAS TOO WEAK.
THANKS.
ANTONIO SERRANO. SPAIN.
It’s a hoax, Antonio. Alyssa checked it out with snopes.com, and it’s just a joke.
It sure looks real though, doesn’t it!
how did they do that!? its really amazing!i never imagined a cellphone can do that. again it really amazed me. i will share this to my friends
haha wow interesting
You guys are falling for this? Jeez. Popcorn takes a descent amount of heat to go off.
It’s a hoax… it doesnt’ work… nada… nothing… dud.
i saw this one on the local tv shop here in australia.
they were saying it a fake but im not sure i have not tryed it. however was amazing funny.lol
It’s a hoax… it doesnt’ work… nada… nothing… dud.