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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.