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Greenstoner 10-18-2010 12:00 PM
Father And Son Send iPhone Into Space And Record Incredible Video
 
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.




StylinRed 10-18-2010 12:02 PM
why'd they use such a shitty camera????


I'd love to try that though

oldsnail 10-18-2010 12:04 PM
repost

tool001 10-18-2010 12:33 PM
wow, earth is round!!

FN-2199 10-18-2010 12:37 PM
http://www.revscene.net/forums/very-...t-t627237.html

A worthy repost, though.

Phil@rise 10-18-2010 12:37 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by StylinRed (Post 7150047)
why'd they use such a shitty camera????


I'd love to try that though
budget and size constraints probably a consideration

Leopold Stotch 10-18-2010 02:12 PM
wait, from how i understood it, it's an iphone WITH a camera, not the iphone's camera.

quasi 10-18-2010 02:20 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Leopold Stotch (Post 7150200)
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 10-18-2010 02:22 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Leopold Stotch (Post 7150200)
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 10-18-2010 02:27 PM
pretty high quality

MWR34 10-18-2010 03:44 PM
haha MobileMe while its in space. Im sorry sir, your phone is outta this world.

Durrann 10-18-2010 03:54 PM
What gps app i wonder did they use
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$_$ 10-18-2010 04:00 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by tool001 (Post 7150092)
wow, earth is round!!
that was EXACTLY what i was thinking

gilly 10-18-2010 04:19 PM
cool vid

ToyotaPowah 10-18-2010 04:41 PM
What are the roaming charges up there?

Euro7r 10-18-2010 05:18 PM
Shiet, crazy

Death2Theft 10-18-2010 06:17 PM
Yet they said they found the phone after it landed due to the led at night?>
Quote:
Originally Posted by silva95teg (Post 7150207)
Right at the end of the video it says the phones batteries ran out after recording.

StylinRed 10-18-2010 06:26 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Death2Theft (Post 7150576)
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 10-18-2010 07:27 PM
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 10-18-2010 07:36 PM
LOL.. its not an iPhone. Just a regular HD camera. Doubt the iPhones batteries would have lasted that long :D

F1 4ever 10-18-2010 07:58 PM
they showed the iphone in the video

ToyotaPowah 10-18-2010 08:07 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by LiquidTurbo (Post 7150703)
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 10-18-2010 11:32 PM
Sounds like an amazing project....Great lesson for the kid in so many different ways...=)

sunny_j 10-18-2010 11:41 PM
very cool

Meowjin 10-18-2010 11:56 PM
The MIT one done before this one is much better.


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