How Two Russian Journalists Cooked an 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 dont recommend men carrying cell phone in their pants.
4 comments:
I had no idea parliment cigarettes came in waveguides.
This is bullshit. Mobile phones radiate less than 100 mW. Even if all the radiated energy from both phones entered the egg, that's still not even enough to heat the egg by four degrees Centigrade -- at 31 C, the egg would radiate 200 milliwatts of infrared into a 27 C room. In practice, the air in the room provides additional cooling.Even if the phones were radiating a full watt into the egg, that's still only a rise of 20 C, not even enough to heat the egg up to 47 C in a typical room. (That's 116 F, not too hot to hold).
Note that the phones are not running on battery, but connected to an outlet. That means that the batteries are charging, which creates a lot of heat. The only explanation I can come up with. The radiation sounds unprobable.
Nah, that's a wrist strap on the right-hand one. I see no other power cords.Besides, the batteries would go into lithium battery thermal runaway mode long before they could cook the egg that way.
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