There was an article linked from Slashdot today called Weekend Eating: Mobile Cooking. In it Suzzanna Decantworthy describes how to use two mobile phones to cook an egg, and the link seems to be making the rounds on weblogs and IRC.
Now, yes, I know that the original article was just intended as a joke and just for fun. But my engineering side sometimes gets the better of me, and I want to take a look at some rough numbers to ask… well, is it even close to possible?
So here’s my attempt to wave my hands and scribble some caclulations on the back of a napkin to see if you can indeed boil an egg with your cell phone…
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