Beware Cell phone users---Could kill you

rishimba, yes you are right. Its resonance effect. I was struggling to recall from my poor memory. Anyway, I am not making an exact analogy. I am just saying that strange and familiar things can occur, becareful than regret.

Its not bad to learn from others' experience though....

In this modern world, internet is the great equalizer.

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muh, I know this one is fake, seen it a few years ago.

All I know about batteries is that the AA energiser lithium one I disassembled with a pair of needlenose pliers a few months ago had a small safety valve just under the positive terminal, which is designed to vent the electrolyte incase of shortcircut/overcharge and prevent explosion...I guess the positive terminal will pop out too.

Unless the battery is a knock off brand or one that's under recall you're going to have to try pretty hard to make one explode.

P.S. don't crack open a battery unless you know what you're doing please.

blabla, bridges may collapse due to resonance...where the frequency of any loud sound near the bridge matches the natural frequency of vibration of the bridge..the bridge would start resonating and may finally give away.

I don't believe it is accepted by Science Mehnis. Anyway like cookiemonster said this topic has gone way off-topic and become quite silly indeed.

Rishimba, even I am not clear about that. I watched a program on NG showing how some physical phenamena can cause bridges to collapse...

It happened to me could happen to anyone.

My advice: don't answer mobile phone when you are in deep sleep. Get up, relax and do some stretching then call back..its better you switch it off or keep on silent mode when sleeping...

It is not spiritual entirely. Yes the full functions and potential of the aura body can be utilized through spiritual means. But the existance of aura body and the energy levels and the functions of chakras are well documented and accepted by science

This is probably caused of faulty batteries/over heating/short circuit :(

lol @ the sillyness in here :)

it's not entirely spiritual....it's something we can actually experience.i mean,i have felt it.

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That is not really accepted by science. It's more of a spiritual explanation. Closest acceptance of an Aura in science would be if you look in the field of Parapsychology.

Spiritual terms, as what I know from my practice in Reiki, Aura will not effect you in the way you are being effected.

Deepb every living has an aura body. A human aura body part of the human composite body. Which has an electrical , an electromagetical and parts that connect to other realms as well. A aura is like the transciever for the humanbody

each individual living object has an aura of its own.have you been in a situation when you have just 'felt' someone?like say u're in deep sleep or deep thought and someone sneaks up to you noiselessly and tries to touch you gently.....just before he/she touches you,you sense a presence.that is when both ur aura come into contact with each other....something like a disturbance in an electric field.

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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. - Alfred de Musset

it's the energy level that surrounds every object....it is profound in some and less so in most.

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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. - Alfred de Musset

Mehnis the superhero part was a joke... By the what is an aura?

eeks!i reckon i'd look like i have one of those fancy plasma globes all around me if the 'aura' around me could be visible to the human eye :-S

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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. - Alfred de Musset

Maybe if he had used a proper bed sheet, things would have turned out different? ;)

What comes around, goes around....

blabla, i cant explain as to what happened to you as i dont have all the details..

however, i just said its not doppler effect...cos this is applicable to sound waves and not electricity or electromagnetic waves.

SS it is beyond physical. The physical body is just conducting extra current the aura is gathering. Nothing to do with super hero but just some imbalance in the electrical field in your aurabody

thanks for the link....guess i'm just a bit too dry skinned....though it doesn't look that way....and yeah,i know all about the dress-clinging bit....ugh!it's such an embarassment :-S

and no,if this means superhero stuff,no thanks.i'd rather be a plain jane.

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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. - Alfred de Musset

I actually googled for it and found that you might be suffering from a condition called bioelectricity, SS.

Maybe this link will help you http://www.ehow.com/how_2054382_get-rid-static-electricity.html

Or it could just be some sort of superpower waiting to manifest ala HEROES :P

so, rishimba what explanation you have for what happened with me. I don't give wrong information and I am sure my health has nothing to do with it. There was no explosion in the phone but the phone sent some wrong signal to the body..

lol..no dear blabla...its different..

I think there are phenamena called doppler effect,etc that can make even small currents big..it may have something to do with body's electrical system interfearing with phone's...

SS some people naturally collect more static that others. A human being is a composite entity and contains electrical and magnetic fields. For some even a mild electrical shock does not have severe repercussions. For some even static is a big jolt

thanks a lot,guys....will tell dad to look into the matter.better get something done before a faulty power supply damages our new PC :-S

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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. - Alfred de Musset

it's not very funny when you get jolted by minor shocks almost everyday from every metal surface you touch.so if i am to be classified under either or both of the phobia you mentioned,i'd have to accept it....coz i've been going thru this since i can remember.

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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. - Alfred de Musset

SS,

Try to get a new power supply or ground ur pc..i used to have this problem and it went away when my power supply finally fried up n i changed it.. :P

besides..speakin of static..i got a very bad bad static shock once when i was vaccuming..rest of the times i m used to it now..happens soo frequently with me..

SS, wonder if you would be classified under Hormephobia or Electrophobia?

lol..SS, but let me tell you static electricity cannot kill you or injure you... so don't bother much.

deepb,

it happened some six months ago. I went to the hospital next morning and found nothing wrong. I have no such shok there after. I am perfectly alright and i never experienced that before too..

whatever,rishimba....i am only bothered about the electric current....be it static or high voltage.and i'll stay away from anything that causes it.

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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. - Alfred de Musset

SS, i think you are confusing between static electricity and a high voltage current.

in all possibilities you might have received a slight tickle on your skin the area you have touched the screen. it happens in many appliances if its not grounded well.

after a long drive, in a dry weather, while getting out of the car, you will experience it when you last touch the door to close it. you can get a mild shock from the garden chair when you rise from the seat.

computer screens also get statically charged by the constant bombardment of electrons on the other side of the CRT. its possible. however, it has nothing to do with 200 volts/5 amps AC mains.

trust, this is clear !!

...Life would become Dull if there were no such Difficulties...

Get yourself checked at the hospital, DO NOT assume it was a shock from your mobile due to charging. The low DC current that passes through the charger onto the phone cannot cause anything other than a small jolt and will not cause you to lose consciousness.

so, deepb what could be the reason in my case. I am diabetic but my glucose levels are in control. I don't know if its phone to blame or my health.

Yes Mehnis, batteries can explode if they are faulty like I said. Being on charge or not does not have anything to do with it.

Read the link posted by chocoholic. There are thousands of urban legend fake emails going around. The naive and gullible ones just keep forwarding it and add to its spread. Instead before you copy paste or forward, use google to verify the authenticity. Snopes/Urban Legend/ Hoax slayer usually have the lowdown on these fakes.

Sometimes no knowledge is better than wrong knowledge.

Goodness. Great that nothing worse happened

I can endorse it as I have personally experienced this. I was in deep sleep in the evening after returning from work when my friend called me while my phone was charging. I woke up and picked the phone to answer. I don't know what happened, I fell down on my head and got injury. In a minute or so I got my conscious back and found my friend saying in phone what happened,etc. thank God I am alive and alright. My phone was Nokia 6230.

and i've had ppl telling me that they experience a mild jolt sometimes when they touch me....LOL (no,i'm not joking!)

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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. - Alfred de Musset

Very high voltags of static electricity can collect in the body and will discharge immediately on contact with conductive material , thereby giving a jolt.

i could identify with that....i have a little excess of static charge on me.i get shocks from just about everywhere :-S metal parts of cars,DVD players,microwave ovens,light switches.....heavens,once even from my bathroom tap! :-o

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And added to all this is the static charge every person carries on the body. Sometimes it is enormous. That too could have something to do with this

I just posted it for information and to be aware. Batteries have exploded before many times while on charge. I am not an engineer but qualified in computer hardware. As I said -if this fake --I cannot prove or disprove the pics. Bottom line is that cell phone batteries have exploded before

Your pc if not grounded properly can hurt you and can fry up some of the more sensitive parts like a graphics card or ram. Which in-turn can lead to the whole pc becoming nothing but a big pile of metal junk. Get it grounded.

That does not have anything to do with this hoax about a person getting burnt and dying, from using his mobile while charging.

3 minutes of searching will tell you this is fake.

Found it on snopes-

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/cellcharge.asp

These photos were added to an email already circulating for years.

If you ask me, the photos are from someone smoking in bed and falling asleep.

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i did not think of AC and DC when i got a shock.i just thought that i should be more careful.and that i should remember not to touch the screen when i connect my fone to my PC.that's all.

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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. - Alfred de Musset

SS your grounding is bad, careful or your pc parts could fry up. Mild Shock does not equate to exploding cellphone and burning a person to death. As an engineer yourself, you should know that a cellphone charger converts normal AC current to harmless low-voltage DC current.

If a faulty battery is meant to explode, it will explode irrespective of it being on charge or simply sitting in your pocket.

there is nothing wrong with the fone,bleu....it works that way only with some PCs....at work,it's okay with my office PC.

i just wanted to say that it IS possible for current to pass in excess amounts into a mobile fone.

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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. - Alfred de Musset

Bleu then from were will we charge ? :)

That means there's something wrong with the phone... That part should not be charged.

Oooppsss Ok Ok change urself !! :)

rizks....grrr!why are you not allowing me to get serious for a change? :-P

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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. - Alfred de Musset

Maggie if u give such seductive look the same way in ur Avataar pic, obviously anything thing will get shocked....:)

J/K

fine then....let me pose a question.now this is 100% real and i ain't kidding.when i connect my mobile thru USB to my home PC,i cannot touch the screen nor the sides of my mobile....i get a mild shock.when i want to do some data transfer,i connect the cord to my fone and then to the PC...we experienced the same thing when we connected our MP4 players,MP3 players

or even other fones.why does this happen.....why does the screen get charged?

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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. - Alfred de Musset

The battery might just heat up when u are charging and using the phone..

He might have used a cheap/inefficient substituted battery.. most of these news are fake..

how can the person be thrown away from the kind of shock which he recieves..its stepped down to such a low level..lol..

Think b4 you paste.. :P

Sad part is there are so many gullible people who will fall for such nonsense.

My charger is 5V, 1A ... which makes wouldn't even tickle...

REMEMBER: Never use copy and paste from other forums, or your email... 99.999999% of this kind of info is FAKE!

I'm sorry but What a load of nonsense lol

Exploding batteries aside, theres no way on this earth that the mains voltage passed up from the plug via the charger through the phone and into that person.

And no wet hand is going to blow up a phone lol,

Remember folks just cos you read it on the internet, that doesn't make it true ;)

I have some really gruesome pics and will make up an unbelivable story to go with them. Feel free to call BULLS*IT on them. Thanks to the internet any fool can post anything and someone will belive it and spread it around like its the gospel.

and like the proverb goes..."nobody believes anything bad will happen to them until it actually does"....TFS,mehnis.it's always better safe than sorry.

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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. - Alfred de Musset

Any way sorry you think this is BS. I just wanted the information passed on. Because it is gruesome, the visual effect will make people more careful.

everything will be fine until something goes wrong. We cannot prevent everything .

If the boy was rushed to the hospital from the floor of his room and then pronounced dead upon arrival, who propped his hand up a few times for pictures?

Fakity, fake fake fake.

I guess this is what happened. If you see the pic you will notice that the battery has exploded and my guess is Ac power by induction killed this chap and most likely his hand was wet

i cant belive this...cos i normally use my mob while charging....

Fake.

yeah, i have read about the battery problem that nokia had. its a different story.

no, moisture in the person's hand cannot explode the handset. yes, there may something like that if by some means you connect the handset with 220 volts direct.

I take calls with the charger plugged in, been doing it since started using mobiles. Will continue doing it. This is either the rarest incident or plain BS. Both of them don't worry me.

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True Rishi. I do understand electronics and the functions of the conversion to dc. This probably is the rarest case where there has been a casualty.

But back home I have come across news of cell phones exploding because of defective batteries. In fact Nokia replaced the perceived defective matshushita battery in my cell couple of years ago because the particular seriel nos of the batteries were exploding all over India.

Some chinese made batteries used as replacements also exploded while on charge.

I think in this case it probably was the cause of phone converted failing which gave a direct ac charge to the battery which exploded. Another thing is moisture or some conductivity in this person's hand could have caused the currect to get inside his body by induction

Pronounced dead on arrival :P

mehnis,

just think..how can the 220 volt/5 amps flow in the hand set just about the time you are taking the call. the charger is a step-down transformer which have two different circuits. unless there is a short circuit in the primary coil, nothing like this can take place.

this might be a fluke accident which coincided with the call timing.

i dont see any reason why you should not take the call while its set for charging.

Another load of crap....

Yet more rubbish posted by someone who should know better.

If you believe this then I am a 6 ft supermodel with a 100 million dollars that wants to have your babies right now.....

TFS mehnis..it has even come in the INDIAN NEWS CHANNELS..One shld even check the batteries of mobile from time to time..

i have read about this before.....i'm very careful to remove the fone from it's charger before even answering the call.it's also not advisable to use the cell phone when there is heavy lightning it seems.take care everyone :-(

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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. - Alfred de Musset

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