Yes but can it boil water for my tea.....

My girlfriend, Biodiversity Babe , e mailed the following story to me today. She prefaced said story with dire warnings that I should lay off my Blackberry. As I work in the wireless industry, I am pretty much glued to my mobile and Blackberry or "Crackberry" as we call them here in Wireless Operations. After reading this story I feel I may have to reconsider using my mobile on those long 2 hour conference calls I sometimes end up on. If not, apparently my brain will become hard boiled. BioBabe loves the fact that the cell phones are in cigarette packages, that must have been for another health experiment. I am sure some of us techs here will discover some flaws in their experiment as we like our jobs and our annual bonuses.

Here is the story.....you decide......

How Two Russian Journalists Cooked an Egg with their Mobile Phones






Vladimir Lagovski and Andrei Moiseynko from Komsomolskaya Pravda Newspaper in Moscow decided to learn first-hand how harmful cell phones are. There is no magic in cooking with your cell phone. The secret is in the radio waves that the cell phone radiates.

The journalists created a simple microwave structure as shown in the picture. They called from one cell phone to the other and left both phones on talking mode. They placed a tape recorder next to phones to imitate sounds of speaking so the phones would stay on.




After, 15 minutes: The egg became slightly warm.

25 minutes: The egg became very warm.

40 minutes: The egg became very hot.

65 minutes: The egg was cooked. (As you can see.)





Conclusion ..1: Cooking eggs with mobile phones is possible but very expensive ($4.55 or 123 Rubles)

Conclusion ..2: All this talk of danger is exaggerated; even if your brain gets cooked, it would take a couple hours of talking on a cell phone.

Conclusion ..3: We dont recommend carrying cell phone in your pants.