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Youll be amazed at how these government researchers turned your smartphones camera into a radiation dose meter.
2014-01-13 15:52:20| Extremetech
Government researchers have written an Android app that lets your phone's camera act as a gamma radiation detector. We're not talking about the same quality of detection as a commercial detector or dosimeter, but if you spend a lot of time in planes, or you live in an area with high levels of natural background radiation (granite, limestone, high altitude), you might soon use your smartphone as a cheap, fairly accurate gamma radiation detector. Such a smartphone app could be a huge boon for emergency services who are first on the scene at a radiation leak and aren't equipped with the correct radiation gear, too.
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