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Your car keys have better range if you press them to your head, since your skull will act as an antenna. It sounds like some made up pseudoscience that would never work in practice or have a negligible effect, but it actually works.
Edit: idk if it's actually because your skull acts as an antenna, although that's what I've heard. I looked it up and it seems like it's your head acting as a reasonance chamber. Since your body is conductive, your head can bounce and amplify the radio signal.
How?
The tinfoil hat you're wearing amplifies the signal!
Your skull is a parabolic reflector
Iโve read two takes on this before:
The cavity of your head helps project the signal to your car
The water molecules in your head amplify the radio waves to reach your car
I can't imagine how water could amplify a signal. If anything, it's the reflector like shape of your skull.
The way I do it is holding the bottom of the key under the soft part of the lower jaw while holding the mouth open as a resonance chamber.
Iโve read two takes on this before:
The cavity of your head helps project the signal to your car
The water molecules in your head amplify the radio waves to reach your car