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seen this latest craze on youtube?
www.youtube.com/watch
apparently ist the latest scheme in "stealth marketing", experts explain..
www.youtube.com/watch
www.youtube.com/watch
apparently ist the latest scheme in "stealth marketing", experts explain..
www.youtube.com/watch
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Re: cell phone pop corn
Wed, October 14, 2009 - 3:25 AMYou can also debunk it just by slapping some math on it.
Microwave ovens produce hundreds to thousands of watts of microwave power to do their work, and it goes into a confined space. Still, it takes several minutes to pop popcorn. Cell phones only produce about 600mW to 3W, and into the open. They produce most of the energy when they are off-hook, not when they are ringing. Most of them also curtail their energy output where the reception is good in order to save battery. -
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Re: cell phone pop corn
Wed, October 14, 2009 - 7:02 AMthanks glenn, for once again giving us the science behind the hunch..
but what startled me the most was not that so many people believed it was possible, but that there is a defined term called "stealth marketing", openly admitted and shared..
..in this case designed to subvert and scare people,- and then ultimately promote "the solution", the bluetooth headset.. -
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Re: cell phone pop corn
Thu, October 15, 2009 - 3:48 AMWell, thank you in turn for the consideration.
Stealth marketing is, itself, an interesting study in human nature.
Now, you want some irony? A bluetooth headset emits radiation that is in the same frequency band as the radiation of a microwave oven (2.4GHz). Cell phones only emit such radiation if bluetooth is enabled. Otherwise, the radiation generated by a cell phone is in one of four bands: 850MHz and 1900MHz in ITU region 2 (North America) and 900 and 1800MHz in ITU regions 1 and 3 (the rest of the world). The 2.4GHz radiation is harmless, though, thanks to it being even lower power than the cell phone's radiation. A wired headset is a far better way to get the radiation away from your head, if it really concerns you.
Also, beware of some devices that promise to attenuate the radiation. Most fail, but if one were to succeed, it would reduce the effectiveness of your cell phone -- that radiation is the signal carrying your voice.
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Re: cell phone pop corn
Tue, November 3, 2009 - 5:42 PMEdward Bernays would be proud of this sort...(Century of the Self)
of public relations idea to promote other to purchase products.
From gimmicks to fear to "clever" marketing...that's business!
In Market Strategies anything seems to go, but when it preys on
peoples vunerabilities such as fear of tumors from cell phone radiation
one needs to ask how can the consumer play a dirty trick back...?
Fight fire with fire sort of thing.
Well, you can tell what side of the fence I live on.
As an artist I like to use my art work as a weapon to blow up
bad ideas in society...watch out!
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Re: cell phone pop corn
Wed, November 4, 2009 - 10:28 AMso how would we launch our own stealth reply to their marketing? what do you suggest? interesting idea.. -
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Re: cell phone pop corn
Thu, November 5, 2009 - 6:16 AMI think the ad led to eduction and a lot more awareness both of the science of the situation ( thank you for that glenn!) I think this led to higher awareness of the reality of the situation and also more awareness as far as looking for hoaxes.
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Re: cell phone pop corn
Thu, November 5, 2009 - 3:13 AMYou must love Adbusters then, eh?
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