NASA turns iPhone into chemical sensor, can an App Store rejecti...

Courtesy Engadget  Fri, 11/13/2009 - 06:36

NASA turnes iPhone into chemical sensor, can an App Store rejection be far away? People have been trying to turn cellphones into medical and atmospheric scanners for some time now , but when it's NASA stepping up to the plate with a little device to monitor trace amounts of chemicals in the air, it's hard to not start thinking we might finally have a use for all those tricorder ringtones.

Developed by a team of researchers at the Ames Research Center led by Jing Li, the device is a small chip...

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