Cell Phone Popcorn Hoax Videos Revealed as a Marketing Campaign for Bluetooth Headsets
Those videos of cellphones popping popcorn? Turns out it was a viral marketing scheme for bluetooth headsets made by the company Cardo Systems. Their website (pictured below) runs the slogan "Making popcorn with a cellphone only happens in the movies," and a disclaimer that reads "The contents of these videos are fictitious and humorous optical illusions..." Indeed.
The Cardo website.
Previously:
Videos of cellphones popping popcorn
Popcorn videos debunked
Good Morning America tries to pop popcorn with cellphones, and failed.
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4 Comments:
I fail to see how pretending that cell phones are powerful enough to pop corn and then telling us that it's not real is going to help them sell their product.
That's like artificially creating a danger to sell the solution...then directly admitting that the danger isn't real and that they were just fooling with you.
And for those still not convinced and think that cell phones are dangerous and should not be kept near your head because of the wireless signals, how is their solution of using a wireless headset going to solve that? It also uses wireless signals. Someone should make a video with their Bluetooth headsets in a circle and it exploding some food to ruin their sales.
wunami at 2:37PM on 06/12/08
it's possible that they didn't arrange the videos, they just used them as an advertising ploy after the fact. and yeah, seriously, if you don't want to use a cell phone, just use a regular phone. very few people really need to be available to talk on the phone all the time.
al oof at 12:56PM on 06/13/08
this video show you how it's done
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1399627/cell_phone_popcorn_hoax_revealed/
shara jr at 5:50PM on 06/18/08
no, wunami, the cell phone is communicating with the cell tower far away and needs more power to do so than the bluetooth headset needs to communicate with the cell phone. also, there is more data than just audio going between the tower and the phone requiring more bandwidth.
to test this activate your bluetooth headset and make sure it is on and working then start dialing. hold the cell phone under your CRT computer monitor, does it vibrate the picture on the monitor? now hold the headset under the monitor. does it vibrate the picture on the monitor?
polipstobingo at 2:00AM on 06/26/08