All Things Digital

Skip to main content.

SEARCH
BoomTown

BoomTown

The BoomTown FeedFollow Kara on Twitter

Viral Video: Cellphone Popcorn Party

by Kara Swisher
Posted on June 6, 2008 at 12:14 AM PT

Print Post to Twitter

orville

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:

Print Post to Twitter Comments Tagged: BoomTown, Internet, Kara Swisher, digital, video, , , , , , , , | permalink
We’ve launched a new commenting tool, Disqus. For the full story on all of its functionality, click here. To begin commenting right away, you can log in below using Facebook Connect or Disqus—you can also log in using an existing AllThingsD account. Learn more about how Disqus collects and uses information in connection with the comments tool.
  • Kevin Arthur
    Freaky. I wonder if this is how they reanimated Orville Redenbacher's corpse for those commercials last year.
  • Well I'm glad to see that superior USA technology allows this to be done with only three cell phones rather than four!
  • William Darkow
    This 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!"
  • Hugh Jorgen
    www.snopes.com/science/cookegg.asp
    i 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
  • Mike Blaker
    CARDOSYSTEMS made these vids. YES It’s Fake!!! I found their vids posted yesterday on youtube: www.youtube.com/user/CardoWireless
blog comments powered by Disqus

Latest BoomTown Posts

BoomTown Archives »

Latest BoomTown Videos

More Videos »

View All Jobs | Post a Job Job Listings

A sponsored service from SimplyHired

BoomTown Posts by Date

BoomTown Posts by Category

BoomTown Posts by Tag

Amazon AOL Bebo Bill Gates Bing blog board California Carl Icahn Carol Bartz conference content deal Dow Jones earnings eBay email Hollywood iPhone Jerry Yang layoff Mark Zuckerberg microblogging movie MySpace news News Corp. New York partnership revenue Rupert Murdoch San Francisco share start-up Steve Ballmer Steve Jobs stock Sue Decker takeover The Wall Street Journal Time Warner Wall Street Wall Street Journal Web 2.0 YouTube

More BoomTown Tags »

About Kara

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. Read more »

Ethics Statement

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.

Read more »