NTV Station Today: Popcorn and Cell Phones, Explained; Kobe Bryant, Dissed
It probably comes as little surprise that those videos using cell phones to pop popcorn were actually viral advertising — but for who? And how did they actually manage to pop those kernels? Today at the Station we not only track down the people responsible for the phenomenon, we also find a video that purports to solve the trick. But do you have a better theory? Don’t be afraid to speak up!
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I could never get the popcorn to pop?? We tried to do this experiment over and over again with our cellphones and we could never get it to work. I do try to talk on my cell phone less and less since seeing that video on YouTube because I know that there is a certain amount of radiation that those little gadgets emit. Watch in several years we are all going to be getting cancer in our ears because we all talk on cell phones too much.