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What happens when you use your devices while charging? #shorts

19 Mar 2022 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, two speakers perform a brief demonstration where one measures the voltage on a laptop that is charging. When the second speaker touches the laptop, the meter spikes dramatically, and the first speaker interprets this as evidence that using a device while it is charging causes “dirty radiation” and electricity to flow through the user, allegedly leading to cancer. The video ends with a warning not to use devices while they are charging. The content mixes a visual voltage demonstration with an unsubstantiated health claim presented in an informal, sensational tone.

Whoa!
What happened?
I just got a shock from you.
How is that possible?
It's because you're using your laptop while it's charging.
I don't believe this.
Wait, let me get a meter and show it to you. All right, see here I have a meter and I'm going to show you something cool. Show me your hand. Can you keep your hand here please? What is the meter reading, Singh?
0, 1, 2, very little.
All right, now touch your laptop.
300! Oh my God!
Now lift your hand up.
Comes back down.
Now touch your laptop. Do you see what happens? It shoots up every time I touch it. Exactly. So now do you understand what happens? Every time you use your devices while they are charging, all the dirty radiation and the electricity flows through you and creates cancer inside your bodies. So next time when you are charging a device, don't use it.