January 22, 2008
A burial service for old mobile phones
This may be one of the strangest press releases I've come across. Something to be stored away for April Fool's day.
Mobile Fun, a UK mobile ringtones and mobile games company has announced a burial service for old mobile phones.
Customers can post their old phones to Mobile Fund and for a small fee the old phones will be taken and buried in Russia, in the middle of KMA (Kursk Magnetic Anomaly).
Kursk Magnetic Anomaly is by far the biggest and strongest magnetic anomaly in the World because of an astronomical amount of iron ore underground, very close to the surface. Even compasses do not work in the KMA.
For an additional fee your old mobile phone can send a final farewell SMS text message from Russia to your new mobile.
...There also is an interesting, although controversial idea increasing in popularity amongst Russian mobile phone users that over time, some personal electromagnetic 'zen' becomes trapped inside old mobile phones.
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