New Space and Tech

Google Nexus S phone reaches 100,000 feet via weather balloon

By Keith Cowing
April 8, 2013
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“Seven styrofoam beer coolers sit lined up behind the open hatchback of an SUV, parked next to a soccer field in California’s rural Central valley. Each box contains a black Google Nexus S phone, mounted with their cameras facing out through a clear plastic cut-out in the side. Some of the boxes/phones have consumer-grade wide-angle sport video cameras mounted on the outside, odd bits of custom-soldered circuitry poke out of others.” More at New Scientist

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