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: