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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.)
Then you deserve to melt the iPhone, your microwave, home and possibly yourself.
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Also, don't put your phone in gas oven, or on a hot griddle.
Similarly, don't touch anything hot enough to cook, and don't stick a knife into your gut.
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I mean really, this is a new low for story quality.
"Put your head in a microwave, and give yourself a tan..."
"Put your head in a microwave and get yourself a tan."
You must dare to be stupid.
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I can't wait until wireless charging is standard. Combined with bluetooth headphones, we can finally start making phones really water resistant or even waterproof. Be nice not to fumble with little charging connectors late at night or drunk when your phone needs a charge too.
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You can't trick me. You're only jealous because your cheap Android doesn't support Wave charging.
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"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
I'm guessing people were using 800W microwaves. The Wave Charge feature is only intended for 700w microwaves. Anyone using a powerful microwave should lower the power percentage to compensate. It worked fine on mine, although 1,30 only gave me 72% battery not 100%.
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.
I was just about to try out Wave on my new iPhone after I finished deleting system32 to make my PC go faster
Haha, too true. No way Apple is this advanced. Now, my Samsung, on the other hand, charges a treat. Just don't run it on full power as that overclocks the CPU and causes instability.
Darwin would be ashamed that these people are still breathing.
What if I dressed up as a doctor, had an air of gravitas, videoed from what looks like an ivy covered university and gave terrible terrible medical advice about Tylenol maximum dosages? Or if I dressed as a garage mechanic used all kinds of mechanical words and gave horrible advice such as sugar in the gas tank eliminates the squeal when you hit the brakes?
We all can't be experts in everything. Some people are really really not technical while not actually being stupid people. This sort of thing might not fool many slashdotters but which fork to use during which course during a fancy dinner with a potential investor in our tech startup might confound many of us; and end up costing us a whole lot more than a replacement phone.
To charge your iPhone you need a $150 crisper... ere "Inductive charging" pouch that your phone goes into before putting it into the microwave.
Keeps it clean, you see. Not using the "Inductive charging" pouch may void the warranty.
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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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Oh c'mon, from time to time having a laugh at the expense of the bullies that beat us up during high school really helps coping with it.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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.
The best practical joke I've ever done was to draw a cock on a friend's forehead with a UV marker when he was already somewhat drunk and decided to take a nap before we were going to a club. Now, this was in Finland where there's an expression "to have cock on your forehead", which means that you're pissed off, upset, sad or such. Hilarity ensued when it became visible in the club's UV lights but he could not see it when checking in the bathroom mirror. Many random strangers that noticed it asked him "hey, what makes you upset, why do you have a cock on your forehead?" and he constantly had to say "no, no, I'm having a great time" and even went a little overboard to look happy thinking that he had to show it. Ah, sweet memories of my days as a student :)
Your comment reminds me of an old joke.
Q: What's the difference between a computer salesman and a used car salesman?
A: The used car salesman knows when he's lying.
So how does someone know who to believe is a genuine "Computer Professional"? I don't normally* wear a set of test leads around my neck like a stethoscope; I don't have a "Mr. GoodBytes" patch sewn to my work uniform; I don't wear a lab coat or even carry a clipboard. What cue would you recommend people trust? A pithy T-shirt? A club tie? An expensive car in the driveway? An imperial conditioning tattoo on my forehead? Trust is always the problem.
* Yes, I do occasionally drape test leads around my neck, but that's beside the point.
John
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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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The first tip-off that this story is BS is that this charging technique doesn't even require an Apple-branded microwave.
There is no way that Apple would introduce a new feature that does not require new Apple hardware.
The basic sleazeware produced in a drunken fury by a bunch of UCBerkeley grad students was still the core of BIND. --PV
Gullibility unfortunately is a survival mechanism.
Part of our nature to form communities and work as a group. Gullibility allows us not to waste time thinking about consequences if someone else seems to know the answer. We use less brain power, increasing our energy level needing less food, and could survive the next day.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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.