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October 26, 2013 08:20 pm GMT
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Hackathon Team Builds Open Radioactivity Warning System' For Crowdsourced Data
Hackathons can sometimes turn into a sea of laptops and monitors, so perhaps it's no surprise that as I wandered the Disrupt Europe Hackathon today, I found myself drawn to a table covered with wiring and gadgets, including a Geiger counter.The idea was pretty unusual, too as the four-person team explained it to me, they're trying to build a system for collecting and displaying crowdsourced radiation data. Philip Wagner (the team member actually working with the Geiger counter) explained that in situations like the Fukushima nuclear disaster, you might not trust the company involved to give you accurate warnings about the radiation danger. So a participant in the Open Radioactivity Warning System would receive their own Geiger counter which collects and shares live data online.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/RXABshDjsB4/
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