Cell phones popping corn?
Posted January 21st, 2011 by Murray By Moonlight
Filed under: False, That Pop Cult Thing, The Truth Is Less Strange Than Fiction, Urban Legends, Viral Marketing
Tags: Scarelore, Technology
This is probably old news for some, but I thought I’d mention it as a friend on Facebook shared this video as being true.
It isn’t.
This video was produced by French marketing company, LastFools, for mobile accessory manufacturer, Cardo Systems, who make headset systems.
The video, of course, went viral, and while there are a lot of demonstrations on sites like YouTube that you can’t pop popcorn with mobile / cell phones (my favourite one demonstrates that you can ‘do’ the same thing with bananas), there are obviously people who are still encountering the original viral marketing campaign for the first time.
Further reading: Videos of ‘popcorn’ mobile phones faked
