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Viral Video: Cellphone Popcorn Party

June 6, 2008 at 12:14 am PT

orville

While there are rumors that these wildly popular videos of a posse of cellphones popping popcorn by their rings or other unknown death rays are fixed, BoomTown actually does not care one iota, as the remote possibility that they are not is freaking me out.

Frankly, it would freak Orville Redenbacher out too.

But they are still riveting.

Here are a few choice ones with an international flair:

From Japan:

From France:

From the United States:

Tagged with: BoomTown, cell, cellphone, digital, France, Internet, Japan, Kara Swisher, Orville Redenbacher, phone, popcorn, United States, video

comments so far. Add yours.

Kevin Arthur

Freaky. I wonder if this is how they reanimated Orville Redenbacher’s corpse for those commercials last year.
http://blog.macb.net Mac Beach

Well I’m glad to see that superior USA technology allows this to be done with only three cell phones rather than four!
William Darkow

This article was the first result from a Google search of the words CELL, PHONE, and POPCORN, and I am no closer to any useful information as to how or why this “phonenomenon” occurs. As any number of heroic characters might say, “damn it, I want some answers!”
Hugh Jorgen

http://www.snopes.com/science/cookegg.asp
i wanted this to be real, but looks to be fake. also, somebody on this site actually broke it down mathematically.
forums.gametrailers.com/showthread.php?t=423337
Mike Blaker

CARDOSYSTEMS made these vids. YES It’s Fake!!! I found their vids posted yesterday on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/CardoWireless