While there are rumors that these wildly popular videos of a posse of cellphones popping popcorn by their rings or other unknown death rays are fixed, BoomTown actually does not care one iota, as the remote possibility that they are not is freaking me out.
Frankly, it would freak Orville Redenbacher out too.
But they are still riveting.
Here are a few choice ones with an international flair:
From Japan:
From France:
From the United States:
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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference.
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
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Freaky. I wonder if this is how they reanimated Orville Redenbacher’s corpse for those commercials last year.
Posted by Kevin Arthur at June 6th, 2008 at 11:29 amWell I’m glad to see that superior USA technology allows this to be done with only three cell phones rather than four!
Posted by Mac Beach at June 6th, 2008 at 11:30 amThis article was the first result from a Google search of the words CELL, PHONE, and POPCORN, and I am no closer to any useful information as to how or why this “phonenomenon” occurs. As any number of heroic characters might say, “damn it, I want some answers!”
Posted by William Darkow at June 8th, 2008 at 5:32 pmhttp://www.snopes.com/science/cookegg.asp
Posted by Hugh Jorgen at June 9th, 2008 at 12:53 pmi wanted this to be real, but looks to be fake. also, somebody on this site actually broke it down mathematically.
forums.gametrailers.com/showthread.php?t=423337
CARDOSYSTEMS made these vids. YES It’s Fake!!! I found their vids posted yesterday on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/CardoWireless
Posted by Mike Blaker at June 12th, 2008 at 5:05 am