We Were Corned…
In Shakesspear’s Merchant of Venice, Launcelot utters the phrase, “the truth will out” meaning the truth will become known eventually…
And so it is with the cellphone corn popping video..
Last week, we used a clip of cellphones popping corn in this post that discussed the larger question of confusion over RF radiation and cellphones.
As part of that post, I included one of several videos floating around the web that purported to show folks using various cellphones to pop a few kernels of corn.
After it appeared—it prompted a wave of “isn’t that cool,” and “we gotta try that” in the ole NBC-17 newsroom.
During some downtime—we tried it.
..And tried…
..And tried…
The results were something like what happened to these folks:
The only thing that was popped was the myth of those videos.
And now, as Launcelot said, the truth will out…
Turns out the videos were a bit of viral marketing by a bluetooth headphone company.
After getting millions of hits—the company “fessed up” it had planted various versions of the video using, Frenchmen, Japanese, Englishmen and Americans on YOUTUBE in a bit of murky marketing known as “murketing.”
It was a great scam—and it took in lots of folks hook, line and sinker including yours truly.
Kudos to the marketers who came up with the idea..
However—there’s still ONE thing the bluetooth maker hasn’t admitted to yet..
And that is—HOW did they do it?
Heated tabletops?
Computer generated graphics?
It’d be nice to know just HOW we were snookered.
So, in the spirit of video trickery, we leave you with this one last clip involving the popcorn and a cellphone—the iPHONE to be specific..
There’s a LOT of versions of this floating around the Internet—and I’m pretty sure I know HOW they do it.
What about you?
Can you figure it out ?
—Steve
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