Technical Markus rants - stop saying mobile phones can cook eggs

   

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The world is full of urban myths around mobile phones. I even did this blog post about it, trying to debunk some of them. There’s one urban myth, however, that seems to keep cropping up again and again and again. It also happens to be the one that gets on my wick more than any other: the oft-debunked idea that you can cook an egg using mobile phones.

Well, it’s popped up yet again, this time courtesy of The Statesman. Allegedly, scientists in India have managed to cook an egg using 4 mobile phones, a process that took around 80... ... read more (mobileshop-blog)