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Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave
Nerval's Lobster writes Placing your iPhone in the microwave will destroy the phone, and possibly the microwave. While that might seem obvious to some people, others have fallen for the "Wave" hoax making its way around online. The fake advertisement insists that the new iOS 8 allows users to charge their iPhones by placing them in a "household microwave for a minute and a half." Microwave energy will not charge your smartphone. To the contrary, it will scorch the device and render it inoperable. If you nuke your smartphone and subsequently complain about it online, people will probably make fun of you. (If you want a full list of things not to place in a microwave, no matter how pretty the flames, check this out.)
I see someone out there has been browsing 4chan again.
The "microwave your phone to charge it" fake infographic/lifehack has been posted countless times before, but nicely updated for the new iPhone. Plenty of kids have iPhones, and plenty of kids are ignorant.
The "microwave your phone to charge it" infographic has been posted next to such informative graphics as:
- Put a drop of gasoline in the corner of your eye to see rainbow colors.
- Mix ammonia and bleach in a dish, put a penny in the bottom, and blow into a straw to grow crystals.
- Ice cream too hard? Microwave the spoon!
Back my day we just TP'd houses.
Induction only works on ferrous metals, and most (at any rate mine) cooktops have a sensor which won't allow the element to come on unless there is a certain amount of ferrous material present. So probably nothing would happen, unless there was also enough of a pot on at the same time to disable the sensor, and there are ferrous parts inside.
Linked to by the Dice non-article, can be found here. There appears to be exactly one victim that they can identify. Given the rest of the junk the guy tweets, my guess is it's a troll, done on an older, non-working phone. Sounds like some people are trying to create a news story where none exists.
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The summary says that 'others' have fallen for it. That makes you think there's got to be at least half a dozen idiots in the world that have tried this, right?
The article (at DICE) says "others have fallen".
Their source is The Independent:
http://www.independent.co.uk/l...
What does that story say?
So there's really only 1 person who said they tried it - and the article itself points out that this, too, is fake (as admitted - he was doing it for the exposure, RTs, etc.)
Maybe there's hope for people yet - though I wouldn't put it past some to actually try it, there's no reason to believe that it has already transpired.
It doesn't even have to be sealed... If you got an oldie microwave that doesn't have a rotating turntable, just a simple glass of water will boil, boil, boil, then mysteriously stop (probably once it's finished expelling all the dissolved gasses). Then the bottom will superheat for a few seconds until it overturns and FOOM, water "explosion."
http://www.ibtimes.com/how-not... Pictures here.
secret to metal in a microwave: eliminate exposed sharp edges.
That funky little HTC with the one-piece machined aluminium chassis is probably safe.
Some microwaveware is metal (I have steel bowls that are specifically designed for safe use in microwaves).
I have an uberbudget oven that has steel pins in the turntable runner.
Combination ovens (micro/grill jobbies) have steel grilles and NOWHERE does it say in the manual to remove these before you operate the oven in microwave mode.
The thing all these have in common is that any exposed metal surfaces are devoid of sharp angles and the edges are rolled back on themselves. Rod points (ie on the grilles) are filed back as far as possible to eliminate those areas as a RFE sink. Also note that on those, the wires are thicker than you'd find in a conventional oven.
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Doesn't matter, we now have two reliable sources claiming it did, so we can put it on Wikipedia, dispute anyone pointing out the discrepancy and fabricate the story from whole cloth.