[Greenstoner]

A father and son from Brooklyn, New York sent an iPhone into the stratosphere a few weeks ago to record a video of the earth's curvature.

The two spent eight months researching and testing their homemade craft, which was made of a weather balloon and a styrofoam case for the iPhone, before launching in Newburgh, NY.

The phone apparently braved winds of 100 miles-per-hour and temperatures as cold as 60 below zero (the iPhone was smartly packed with hand warmers).

The recorded video shows the phone reaching a height of 100,000 feet before the balloon burst, plummeting the contraption back to earth, where it landed 30 miles from the launch point, in a tree, where the father and son found it in the dark because of the iPhone's LED light.



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[StylinRed]

why'd they use such a shitty camera????


I'd love to try that though

[oldsnail]

repost

[tool001]

wow, earth is round!!

[FN-2199]

http://www.revscene.net/forums/very-low-budget-t627237.html

A worthy repost, though.

[Phil@rise]

why'd they use such a shitty camera????


I'd love to try that though

budget and size constraints probably a consideration

[Leopold Stotch]

wait, from how i understood it, it's an iphone WITH a camera, not the iphone's camera.

[quasi]

wait, from how i understood it, it's an iphone WITH a camera, not the iphone's camera.

Ya, I think they just used the phone for its GPS to locate the camera after.

[silva95teg]

wait, from how i understood it, it's an iphone WITH a camera, not the iphone's camera.


Right at the end of the video it says the phones batteries ran out after recording.

[saychun]

pretty high quality

[MWR34]

haha MobileMe while its in space. Im sorry sir, your phone is outta this world.

[Durrann]

What gps app i wonder did they use
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[$_$]

wow, earth is round!!

that was EXACTLY what i was thinking

[gilly]

cool vid

[ToyotaPowah]

What are the roaming charges up there?

[Euro7r]

Shiet, crazy

[Death2Theft]

Yet they said they found the phone after it landed due to the led at night?>
Right at the end of the video it says the phones batteries ran out after recording.

[StylinRed]

Yet they said they found the phone after it landed due to the led at night?>

the led on the case probably ran on its own tiny battery

[CP.AR]

damn!!! talk about a father and son project!

Watch the kid become the next leading JPL scientist because his dad decided to do this with him!

[LiquidTurbo]

LOL.. its not an iPhone. Just a regular HD camera. Doubt the iPhones batteries would have lasted that long :D

[F1 4ever]

they showed the iphone in the video

[ToyotaPowah]

LOL.. its not an iPhone. Just a regular HD camera. Doubt the iPhones batteries would have lasted that long :D

The video was filmed by the camera in the case. There was also an iPhone in the case so that they could locate it by GPS.

[Yuffa]

Sounds like an amazing project....Great lesson for the kid in so many different ways...=)

[sunny_j]

very cool

[Meowjin]

The MIT one done before this one is much better.

[DanHibiki]

More stuff for Steve Jobs to use during his next Apple press conference.

[hotjoint]

awesome

[jimmerz]

The MIT one done before this one is much better.

The US gov't one done before that one was much better. they had rockets and shit man.

[SlySi]

Such an amazing video.
Good find.

[Manic!]

The US gov't one done before that one was much better. they had rockets and shit man.

The MIT one only cost $150.

[TheKingdom2000]

The MIT one only cost $150.

The BIG difference here is the freaking MIT part...

This is a dad and a son...