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Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave

Posted by samzenpus on from the bad-ideas dept.

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.)

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  1. Lifehacks! Infographics! by mythosaz · · Score: 4, Informative

    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!

    ...and countless others, largely centering around poison gas, microwaves, and putting the red-hot spoon in your hand under running water. :/

    Back my day we just TP'd houses.

  2. Not just the ad - the entire story is BS by QuasiSteve · · Score: 4, Informative

    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?

    Pictures have followed the advert that (also fake) showing the outcome of attempting to charge your phone in the microwave:

    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.