I have a problem. I want to buy a bluetooth for my cell phone, but I am trying to justify the need for it. As I have been thinking this over and looking around on the Internet for the best kind I ran into something that got me thinking even more. So let me share a video that everyone needs to see. It totally freaked me out at first! Check out cell phone popcorn.
Can you believe that? It seemed totally crazy to me, but still for some reason somewhat believable. So I decided to find out a little bit more. I don’t want cancer in my brain or something weird because of my phone. Even more reason to have a bluetooth! Being curious and nervous at the same time, here’s what I did to find out some more information. Also, immediately after watching it I had this question: What kind of physical risk is there when I use and carry my phone?
I continued my search for an answer on YouTube watching some videos associated with the popcorn one. Here’s what I found. This is a recreation of the original cell phone popcorn.
With a group not being able to recreate the popcorn, I went searching on snopes.com to see what it had to say. Of course, this is totally not true. Here's the full snopes story.
But, I wanted to find something that told me more about what this company was doing and I found a CNN video on YouTube explaining the original video.
Yeah, so you can’t trust some stuff on the internet. Ok, so some company has a marketing group that thinks they are pretty clever. Big deal! But, there was something in the CNN video that sparked my interest. I’m going to go out and do some more searching, cause I still don’t think my question has been answered. I’ll post what I find and where I found it.
4 comments:
This is great thanks! I saw this and other videos like it, but I wasn't sure where to go to get some more information. So, what question did you have after watching the CNN video?
It would be good to find some real concrete studies about radio waves and what they do to the body. However I'm quite skeptical about cell phone damage to the brain, but who knows. It would be good to hear about what you find.
Does anyone know what levels of exposure to radio waves are considered "safe" for us? Or what levels it would really require to pop the pop corn?
This was interesting and also rather annoying. Though the concept was somewhat funny, people are so quick to believe what they see that it does cause unnecessary panic. I've learned to check it out on snopes.com before I believe it, and I usually come out with a false report. Makes life feel like we're still doing alright!
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