Cellphone starts Gas Stove
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I thought I had posted this at FF already… apologies.
It involves a mobile telephone that is alleged, following investigation, to create an interference to the ignitor to start a Gas Stove.
Naturally reading news articles like these, this one is reported in the respected New York Times, they are still often taken with a certain amount of scepticism and caution. The implication of this could be huge, not for sensations sake, but it opens up the doors to those who already have concerns about radio signal saturation.
There are, to put it conservatively, many many millions of mobile phones used everyday around the World. In the UK with a burgeoning population creaking up to 61-million, mobile phone numbers still out-number the population at minimum 21. And to create 1-billion texts a month (that's without voice calls/data calls) in UK networks, clearly lots of mobile phones are switched ON and in use.
The underlying concern with this story is that which device will be found to be the culprit (if at all)
- will it be the handset generating spurious emissions causing interference at a particular n-Hz level to unprotected circuitry
- will it be the electronic circuitry on the Gas Stove having poor EMC (electro-magntic compatibility) protection allowing conducted interference
or
- will it be both
It is not clear what will be the outcome of this matter, it may just fizzle out, but if not then this little story could have an impact on the World than even the "radiating us to death" protestors have hitherto made.
The implications could be wide spread, should the findings unearth the conclusion of random occurences of this type of event, because it opens the door to many other possibilities with possible horrible consequences
- Scenario 1 My house burnt down because the mobile phone ignited the oven/stove without my knowledge
- Scenario 2 There was no trace of an accelerant, save to say, we found an appliance that had started the fire and we cannot rule out that it wasn't a mobile telephone that caused the appliance to ignite it
- Scenario 3 Two bodies were found in a house with no traces of attack or arson, the authorities are puzzled
So the potential for the unforeseen disaster perhaps shouldn't be ruled out, at this stage, but it would be useful to have the exact findings and conclusions published.
In the meantime I wont be having my mobile telephone left switched ON in MY trouser pocket.
Great for taking on a camping weekend in case you forget the matches though or maybe its just iPhones trying to get people to believe that it's not only their phones that instantly combust! D
Great for taking on a camping weekend in case you forget the matches though or maybe its just iPhones trying to get people to believe that it's not only their phones that instantly combust! D
Yes DaveR, that is it a new Camping and Caravaning tool. The fact that other phones had the capability to turn on the oven obviously provides value-added extras to the phones )
BTW I have another link for the NYT as the link I original point up kept deflecting to a subscription page. The link below go to the front end of NYT and the URL string searches for the story
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How ironic that the susceptible stoves are located in the "Graves-end" area of Brooklyn!
Or should that be "Grave-send"?
Sorry, couldn't resist….
lol
How ironic that the susceptible stoves are located in the "Graves-end" area of Brooklyn!
Or should that be "Grave-send"?
Sorry, couldn't resist….
lol
lol glad you didn't resist AWTLPI that made me laugh. I didn't see the Graves-end connection… really funny.
I wonder how they test to see if gas stoves are susceptible or not. What do they do, get a guy from Al Quaeda, give him a mobile phone and tell him to light the fire?
*Coming soon to the Apple Istore - app for your Iphone to ignite your gas stove.
*Car engine not running correctly ? - ditch your ECU and use your phone to control the sparks.
Hi Greg, any reason why you refer to mobile phones as 'cell phones'?
Hi Greg, any reason why you refer to mobile phones as 'cell phones'?
Because they connect to a cellular network?
Surely a cordless home phone could be described as a mobile phone?
Hi Jonathan… I didn't call it a Cellphone, that is the title of the news article. I used the article's name and I wasn't going to re-write the title of someone elses article.
This point though has come up quite a few times recently about vernacular terminology. I refer to mobile telephone or mobile phone and my webblog is called that. Mobile equipment or mobile station are used within the standards. Mobile phone does appear periodically - but I will need to go back and check where that was. Cellphone is not recorded, as far as I recall.
I prefer mobile (tele)phone, but if we were all to be precise about this matter we would all stand to be corrected because the official term adopted for mobile phones, cellphone or whatever else you wanted to call them infact is Mobile Unit (MU) that was originally the designated term published in the Worldwide Report of 1986 Cellular Communications. I have infact a copy of it on the desk right now as I am writing this reply.
Historically, Mobile Units (MU) were categorised as follows
- transportable
- hand portable
- pocket portable
Can you believe those titles, yuk!