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iPhone more powerful than Curiosity Mars rover, but so what?

by Steven Sande (Aug 7th, 2012)

One of the recurrent Internet memes since the successful landing of the Curiosity Mars rover has been that the iPhone has more processing power than the computer onboard the rover. It's true -- but some of the numbers touted in the rush of blog posts have been flawed. Let's take a closer look ...

iPhone Geiger Counter would benefit Japan, needs Kickstarter love

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 15th, 2011)

The folks at RDTN have organized a Kickstarter project to fund the development and deployment of radiation detectors in Japan. The project uses an iPhone hacked to work with a variety of radiation detectors. The radiation units (shown here) will be sent into the field and used to collect data on ...