[Robotgroup] Hoax: Unusual way to pop popcorn

[Def Egge]

Very interesting....


All the best....

Mike



At 20:25  2008-07-25, you wrote:
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Def Egge wrote:
  http://www.koreus.com/video/telephone-portable-mais-popcorn.html

Revealed as a hoax -- Viral advertising for bluetooth headsets:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsoVEeJg3TY

News story here:

http://newteevee.com/2008/07/09/how-to-pop-popcorn-with-a-cell-phone-revealed/

in case above is broken:

http://tinyurl.com/56dy5k

from the above link:

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How To Pop Popcorn With a Cell Phone: Revealed!

Remember last month, when a surge of viral videos 
made us all wonder how you could pop popcorn with 
cell phones? It was quickly discovered that the 
campaign was created to promote Cardo Systems’s 
line of Bluetooth headsets, but there were no 
answers as to how they were actually performing 
the trick (just theories that required 
disassembling your microwave). That is, until 
today, when CNN turned its attentions to the phenomenon.

If you can make it through CNN’s 
lowest-common-denominator coverage (please, Jason 
Carroll, explain again what a viral video is?), 
Cardo Systems CEO Abraham Glezerman explains the 
trickery behind the hoax. Here’s a handy guide to 
the Cardo-approved method, in five easy steps:

    1. Set the scene: unpopped kernels, cell 
phones of various makes and models, giggling teenagers
    2. Air-pop a few popcorn kernels on your stove
    3. While filming, drop the popped kernels 
onto the table from above
    4. Digitally erase the unpopped kernels from 
the footage, and add sound effects
    5. Upload, and get ready to sell some Bluetooth headsets

Despite not believing it from the beginning, I’m 
still a little sad to learn that a cool visual 
effect was faked. What’s next — Matt Harding 
admits to blue-screening his way around the world? Say it ain’t so.
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:)

Vern

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