How Two Russian Journalists Cooked an Easter Egg with their Mobile Phones
Vladimir Lagovski and Andrei Moiseynko from Komsomolskaya Pravda Newspaper in Moscow decided to learn first-hand how harmful cell phones are. There is no magic in cooking with your cell phone. The secret is in the radio waves that the cell phone radiates.
The journalists created a simple microwave structure as shown in the picture. They called from one cell phone to the other and left both phones on talking mode. They placed a tape recorder next to phones to imitate sounds of speaking so the phones would stay on.
After 15 minutes: The egg became slightly warm.
25 minutes: The egg became very warm.
40 minutes: The egg became very hot.
65 minutes: The egg was cooked. (As you can see.)
Conclusion #1: Cooking eggs with mobile phones is possible but very expensive ($4.55 or 123 Rubles)
Conclusion #2: All this talk of danger is exaggerated; even if your brain gets cooked, it would take a couple hours of talking on a cell phone.
Conclusion #3: We don’t recommend carrying cell phone in your pants.
Photos by Anatoly Zhdanov.
Source: Komsomolskaya Pravda, April 23, 2006
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hattip: This posting entirely reproduced from a Victoria Boutenko publication.
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Ha, ha, ha, ... just received an e-mail from Victoria Boutenko. She says the Pravda article was a hoax. An all in fun thing. Ha. See what happens when you "borrow" a posting from another person. Can't say I won't do it again. It was kinda fun. Like getting punked.
Update: Here is an idea to try ... free mail.
Recommend to those in the know.
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3 comments:
damn, i wish i had thought of that first! everyday, you learn something new. today is no different. thanks!
Have a look here:
http://www.joewein.net/hoax/hoax-cook-egg-with-cellphone.htm
A cell phone battery doesn't actually carry enough charge to heat an egg to the required temperature.
Skip the following figures if you don't care for physics:
A fairly average 3.6V mobile phone battery stores 730 mAh, which is 2,6 Wh (Watt hours) of electric energy. This is 1.7 kcal or enough to warm a 60g egg by 28 degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit). In other words, if all the energy used by the cell phone was converted into microwave energy (a lot of the electricity warms the silicon in the electronics and the display and thus just warms the handset) and all that energy were to radiate *only* at the egg and in no other direction, the egg would barely reach body temperature before the battery goes dead. In practice only a fraction of the energy would turn into microwave radiation that warms the egg. The numbers simply don't add up. Given the known specification of mobile phone batteries and the laws of physics it's doubtful if even dozends of mobile phones piled around it were capable of boiling an egg.
Ha.. ha.. ha.. now I have a portable egg-maker ;) .
While it is good to be cautious against the evils of modern technology , it is equally if not more important to have a scientific approach (proper knowledge) before taking things for granted (unless you consider yourself to be a stone-age human ;) ),
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