An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- April 13, 2024
- April 12, 2024
- April 11, 2024
- April 10, 2024
- April 9, 2024
- April 8, 2024
- April 7, 2024
April 24, 2013 07:09 pm GMT
Original Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/S64pgWu6r-A/
NASA Fires Cellphones Into Space
NASA this week took a handful of cheap but powerful smartphones, slapped them to a gigantic rocket and blasted them into low-earth orbit to see how they'd fare. The project, called PhoneSat, is one of those wacky experiments that seems at first to have nothing to do with science. But it's not a stunt.
The phones — ordinary Nexus Ones, the kind made by HTC and once sold by Google — are being tested as a kind of prototype satellite, and they provide a glimpse of a possible future where ordinary commercial technology that we take for granted winds up powering and controlling larger sensing devices (or even becoming full-fledged research platforms themselves). Read more...
More about Space, Nasa, Cellphone, Htc, and Nexus OneOriginal Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/S64pgWu6r-A/
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article
Mashable
Mashable is the top source for news in social and digital media, technology and web culture.More About this Source Visit Mashable