Your mobile will cook a hardboiled egg. In 80 minutes.

So reckon some researchers in India. I picked this up via The Statesman which is apparently one of India’s oldest English newspapers.

It is not quite the fastest way to cook an egg, but researchers have found that if a raw egg is placed in between four switched-on cell phones, it will be ready to eat in about 80 minutes.

That’d take 320 minutes to cook a hard boiled egg for each owner of each mobile…

In the experiments, the mobile phones were connected to pre-recorded tapes and four of them were kept live with an egg in the middle. After around 80 minutes, the egg was found to be hard-boiled. The research is in its final stages and the effects of EM waves are being studied on enzymes, cells and top layers of plants.

“The idea is to sensitise people about the harmful effects of using mobile phones and living in close proximity to cellphone tower,” said Dr RK Kohli.

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  • Mike42
    http://www.snopes.com/science/cookegg.asp

    Oh...you were joking, riiiighhhht? Because it's October 9th, right?

    8-/
  • I posted it just for you Mike

    2008/10/9 Disqus <>
  • Mike42
    Thanks Sweety, If I didn't bite you'd think I didn't care ;-)
  • i expect one would cook in that time if you placed it on a radiator
    my god - ive a radiator in my bedroom - not far from my HEAD

    dear god! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

    I'm just off to write to the daily mail ;)

    mac, shocked of soho.
  • I've even heard the sun gets things hot (although obviously not in the UK).

    BAN IT ... ban it now!!
  • I believe this was covered in either Mythbusters or Brainiac - If I remember correctly it was
    found to be complete, how did they put it, crap... ;)

    Mark
  • Inverse. Square. Law.

    Jeez.....
  • This was debunked as a hoax some time ago.
  • Seriously?!

    Alarming....
  • edgar1013
    i'll stick to the old fashioned way of boiling an egg.
  • OMG we've soft-boiled James Body!!
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