This is your brain on cell phone!

Making Cellphone Popcorn (without butter)

They're viral on the internet this week. Aim the antennas of three or four cellphones at a handful of popcorn and when you ring the phones the kernels pop. There's already Japanese, French, and American versions to name but a few. There's also inconclusive "proving the negative" versions where the kernels don't pop. Now Snopes has already added it as a footnote to it's article about last year's cook an egg with cellphones hoax, but I was unable (so far) to find any credible explanations for how the trick is done. Unfortunately for cellphone manufacturers the New York Times ran a piece last week about the ongoing debate over the health effects of cellphone use.

Japanese video

French video

American video

Snopes: Oeuf the Wall

New York Times: Experts Revive Debate Over Cellphones and Cancer