http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/ Engadget Comments for Boil an egg (instead of your brain) with your cellphones http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/This is your brain on CDMA.

questions??]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/ I don't know, they say engergy is energy, and I certainly know my first cell phone got pretty freakin' HOT (almost dangerously so) to the touch, and it had a HUGE battery allowing 7 - 8 hours of talk time (WAYYY back in late '98). If you somehow took all the energy in THAT battery and applied it in the right way, you could probably cook an egg.

Whether or not cell phone hardware is up to the task is anyones guess though...]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/
If you have any doubt whatsoever they did a test similar to this on the BBC with 15 phones - still didn't cook the egg.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/
I think these kids give pseudo-science a bad name.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/
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In short, these kids are on crack.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/
Same concept with the phones, the radio is important as it creates feedback between the two phones which creates the right strength to cook the eggs.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/Give it 10 years]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/
First of all, whoever thought this up does not have any idea how a cell phone works. They mistakenly think that the radio waves from the two phones travel directly toward each other through the egg (based on the chosen cellphone position). The radio waves from a cell phone travel every direction, 360 degrees. The position of the two phones to the egg should only be a basis of distance (the closer the better). This flawed understanding of cellphone basics is just one problem with the "fry an egg with a cellphone" rumor.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/
(it's a *joke*, people!)]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/It's a joke. It's not the cell phones boiling the egg - it's the radio!

;-)]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/to cook it you need to raise it's temp about 60 deg C
This will take about 4200 calories of energy (~17,500 joules) absorbed by egg.

1 watt = 1 joule/sec

2 phones @0.6W each x 10% transmitting energy absorbed (VERY generous) = 0.12 W (joules/s)

cooking takes ~146000 seconds/2430 minutes/40.5 hours - that's if there is NO heat dissipation of the egg into the air.
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But to answer a couple of comments/questions:

"What's the radio for?"
It takes more power to transmit sound then to transmit silence. The radio is there to provide constant noise to up the amount of power the phones require to send/receive. Since both phones are in the same room with the radio they will be echoing each other. I can see the reasoning that the power output by the phones would be a bit higher then a normal conversation.

"Cell phones communicate with the cell tower, not each other"
Spot on. - Charlie from Lost.

This is true, so the part about putting it about 1/2 inch from the egg vs getting it as close as possible doesn't make any sense.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/
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This page, which I wrote in 2000, is doing the rounds and has been hit 26,000 times this week!

Thanks!


Charlie.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/boil-an-egg-instead-of-your-brain-with-your-cellphones/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AM