How Two Russian Journalists Cooked an Easter Egg with their Mobile Phones

June 29, 2006

How Two Russian Journalists Cooked an Easter Egg with their Mobile

Phones

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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 don't recommend carrying cell phone in your pants.

Photos by Anatoly Zhdanov.

Source: Komsomolskaya Pravda, April 23, 2006

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