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In news that would make Emmett 'Doc' Brown blush with envy, one New York man claims that his plain-old cell phone has the power to light his plain-old gas oven.
New York's CBS 2 reports that Brooklyn's Andrei Melnikov was taken by complete surprise when, last week, while in the kitchen, he received a call on his Sony Ericsson PDA and, seconds later, smelled the stinging stench of burning plastic. Somehow, his phone had triggered the gas oven, which then melted a meat thermometer left inside. Although a Maytag repairman came by the apartment Monday, the mystery of the Magic Chef oven (fitting name, we think) is no closer to being solved.
Judging from CBS 2's footage (above), we would hazard a guess that -- as awesome as it would be -- Melnikov's phone does not actually generate flame or heat via static electricity (or some such thing). Instead, it seems that the ringing phone fools around with the oven's electronics (that's the technical phrasing, there, folks.), in a way similar to ringing phones that generate white noise through stereo systems. If we're correct in our guess, we'd expect Maytag's parent company Whirlpool -- not Sony Ericsson -- to rectify this potentially dangerous situation. In a conversation with CBS 2 yesterday, a Whirlpool spokesperson said the company had brought the magical oven to the attention of its customer service division. [From: CBS 2]
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Subscribe to commentsKevinAug 19th 2009 1:10PM
What did he stick the cell phone into the oven too? How does having a cell phone in your pocket light a stove?
real estateOct 12th 2009 1:51AM
Judging from CBS 2's footage (above), we would hazard a guess that -- as awesome as it would be -- Melnikov's phone does not actually generate flame or heat via static electricity (or some such thing).
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kcdgeniusAug 19th 2009 2:45PM
its called electo magnetic interference. Usually the users manual will say something to the effect of "If this device interferes with other electronic appliances, move them away from each other." Sound like maybe Magic Chef fudged their FCC EMC testing results, because this is exactly what the test is suppose to catch.