In the video, the popcorn starts popping in 10 seconds. Yet it's immediately cool enough to eat!
In my microwave, at 1100 watts, it takes around 60 seconds of continuous power output in a confined space to make it pop. And you can't eat it immediately, you have to let it cool.
I'll let somebody more knowledgeable in physics figure out how much power is necessary to make the popcorn pop in 10 seconds vs 60 seconds at 1100 watts.
The cell phone batteries don't have nearly the capacity to put out that much power. And then you'd need a lot more robust wiring and circuitry in the cell phone, otherwise the phone itself would start smoking before the popcorn even got warm.
Oh and then if your cell phone starts smoking, that's the first clue to remove it from your head, because soon it will be smoking too.
Now that I read the guy on wired, I didn't think of *how* the popcorn gets heated, *where* the steam in the bag comes from, etc. Yeah it would heat up your fingers holding the phone.
Now, with older phones if I talked for a long time, say, an hour, the cell phone itself would heat up. That's likely an analog phone and I my battery was likely nearly dead at the end of the phone call, and likely just from the circuitry itself being in use for an extended period of time. Certainly the processor in my computer *heats up* but it's not transmitting any signals, but it heats up because it's using *A LOT* more power than any cell phone! These days I can talk for hours on my digital cell phone and it doesn't heat up noticeably.
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In the video, the popcorn starts popping in 10 seconds. Yet it's immediately cool enough to eat!
In my microwave, at 1100 watts, it takes around 60 seconds of continuous power output in a confined space to make it pop. And you can't eat it immediately, you have to let it cool.
I'll let somebody more knowledgeable in physics figure out how much power is necessary to make the popcorn pop in 10 seconds vs 60 seconds at 1100 watts.
The cell phone batteries don't have nearly the capacity to put out that much power. And then you'd need a lot more robust wiring and circuitry in the cell phone, otherwise the phone itself would start smoking before the popcorn even got warm.
Oh and then if your cell phone starts smoking, that's the first clue to remove it from your head, because soon it will be smoking too.
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Now, with older phones if I talked for a long time, say, an hour, the cell phone itself would heat up. That's likely an analog phone and I my battery was likely nearly dead at the end of the phone call, and likely just from the circuitry itself being in use for an extended period of time. Certainly the processor in my computer *heats up* but it's not transmitting any signals, but it heats up because it's using *A LOT* more power than any cell phone! These days I can talk for hours on my digital cell phone and it doesn't heat up noticeably.
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