Mobile phone popcorn 'hoax' hits YouTube

Home-made videos appearing to show corn being popped by the heat given off by ringing mobile phone are getting hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. But according to The Telegraph, it's all a hoax.

... "Despite the scientific impossibility of the stunt – mobile phones do not produce anywhere near enough heat to cook popcorn – some YouTube commenters appear convinced that the clips provide more evidence of the dangers of technology.

Most bloggers who have watched the videos agree that they are hoaxes, but opinion is divided about how and why they were staged."

emily | 2:52 PM | News, Buzz |
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