Alarmist!
First watch the video and freak yourself out:
Pop Corn téléphone portable micro-ondes
Uploaded by sassiere
Before you flush your iPhone down the toilet, here’s the truth:
“In a microwave oven, energy excites the water inside popcorn kernels until it turns into highly pressurized gas, causing the kernels to pop. If mobile phones emitted that much energy, the water in the fingers of people holding them would heat up.”
My best guess is the video is part of some new viral marketing campaign. Maybe Orville Redenbacher is developing mobile-pop?