I've just been sent a little movie cliplet, where 5 geeks and a geekette=20
place 4 mobile phones set at 90 degree angles so North/south, East/West on=
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the table with aerials pointing towards a cluster of unpopped corn in the=20
gap in the middle. The fifth person then phones the phones and the corn=20
starts popping before your eyes.

Two things strikes me as odd.

1. The fifth person must be very quick on the dialing button, unless the=20
phone can do multiple dialling within ms or less of each number. Is there a=
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loopback phone number for mobiles in the US like land line phones have, to=
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test the lines?

2. It is possible that they throw popped corn into the circle as the camera=
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work is a in focus, but hand held and shaky, so with clever cutting it=20
could be like the 3 card trick. We see what we are meant to think we are=20
seeing.

I suppose I'm wondering if 4 GSM phones (I'm assuming they are GSM) which=20
output what 2 or 3 W max really be capable of this?

I don't know 4 people to try the experiment with and I only like toffee=20
popcorn.

Colin


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