Thursday, November 12th, 2009
- Posted by: Matt Grigsby
- Category: Industrial Design, technology
What Chemicals Are Around You?
This is NASA’s new, inexpensive device which uses the iPhone to sense chemicals with 16 nanosensors. The phone can send this information to other devices and also the government over the internet. Turns out that there are numerous uses for chemical sensors including early information on a chemical attack, track emissions from factories, not to mention, allowing users to obtain info about the chemicals present in their everyday lives.
Read more about this on inhabitat.com.
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on December 6th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Hmmm… can it sense the radiation pouring from the iPhone, too?
on March 9th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Now, does this sensor only work when applied to the usb slot of an iPhone? Also, does NASA plan to release this to the masses or is this just an experimental project and if not where would we be able to purchase this at?