Space. The final frontier… for the iPhone?
Yes. This is crazy cool:
Thanks to a father-son team in New York, the iPhone 4 has boldly gone where no iPhone 4 has gone before – 100,000 feet above the earth.
An accomplishment that would probably even make the folks at NASA jealous, Luke Geissbuhler and his 7-year-old son Max built what ABC news calls an “insulated capsule” that was affixed to a weather balloon.
Together, the father and son launched the weather balloon, which rose until it burst at nearly 100,000 feet. The crafty dad, however, devised a nifty parachute system to ensure a safe descent to the ground for the 4th generation Apple smartphone. And thanks to a GPS app, the intrepid explorers were able to find the iPhone on the ground – all in one piece.
It only landed about 30 miles from where they launched it. Check out the video:
Chris Rouse says
Everytime I see one of these videos they really make me want to send my FlipHD into space. Someone with a lot of money needs to do this with a RED camera. I bet that would be a mind blowing home movie.
JayCaruso says
Now that would be really cool.
Stephen Bateman says
That is freakin sick! And that kid, how can he not be “successful” after sending something into space at 7!?
JayCaruso says
Exactly! Imagine the bragging rights he earns at school for that.
Meghan says
That is so stinkin’ cool.
JayCaruso says
It is. The fact that that thing only landed 30 miles from where they launched it is remarkable.
Daniel says
Epic