Cell Phone
Gallery
The cell phone: boon or bane? Here's
a better question: How does it stand
up to the Solar Death Ray? I bought
this broken cell phone for $3 at a local
store. It was a little difficult explaining
to the clerk that I wanted to buy a
broken phone. Other than the fact that
it's busted this phone was perfectly
functional. I removed the battery pack
before putting it in the death ray. The
phone started to smoke and melt a
little bit, but then nothing really
happened for a while. Frustrated with
the lack of massive destruction, I
started to look around the area for a
rock. I figured if I couldn't melt the
phone I could at least smash it up.
After all, I want to make these pages
worth your time! Anyway, as I was
looking for a rock, Tom kept taking
pictures, and the cell phone slowly
succumbed to the power of 112 suns.
As you can see in the last photos, the
keypad is toast, the flip-up hinge was
about to give out, and there is even
some heat damage on the back of the
phone. Take that, ring tones!
Thanks to my brother Gordon for the
suggestion.