In our recent roundup on the health effects of cell phones, we dismissed the viral videos of cell phones popping corn as “obvious fakes.” It turns out that we were right: a new video reveals the whole thing as a marketing campaign for Cardo’s line of BlueTooth headsets.
Wired says the whole stunt was concocted by marketing agency LastFools. Personally, I have to wonder about the effectiveness of a marketing tactic that got many people seriously worried about coming down with brain cancer – and that provoked various experts to recommend wired headsets over Bluetooth ones for safety.
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