iPhone 4 Launched Into Space, Takes HD Video

[Marcus Yam]

Going into space -- covered by AppleCare?

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[alyoshka]

Lol!! I hope Jobs was holding it while it was out there...

 

[outlw6669]

Sorry, but 19 miles high =! Space!

At 19 miles (about 30.5 km) above sea level, you are still square in the stratosphere.
The Kármán Line, or the international standard for the begining of space, is at 100 km (62 miles).

While placing an iPhone 4 in a weather balloon is a nice way to get some panoramic fotos/videos, it is nowhere near being in space.

 

[xantek24]

thanks for making another hole in the ozone layer with THAT phone...

 

[ohim]

Am i the only one getting sick of this , iphone into space, iphone into the toilet, iphone in the bus band , iphone that iphone this ? just cut the crap already a htc could do the same thing yet you don`t see anybody launching witha baloon a htc. No pun intended Tom`s but flooding the site with stupid things that an apple product can do or can`t do is not really appealing to read. Why is everybody trying to do stupid or usless things only with apple gear ? Like puttin a stupid ipad in a luxury car like they did with BMW/Mercedes ...

 

[Guest]

This story just keeps morphing over time. They used the Iphone for tracking via its GPS. Video and Pictures were taken with a different camera.

here is the original video...
http/vimeo.com/15091562

According to THEIR response comments... "We used a Go Pro Hero HD. The most amazing little camera since the Bolex." and "We used the instatracker app. You can use buddyway as well but we found it unreliable and too complex. A friend lent us her old 3G with a cracked screen."

So a cracked iphone was used to track the craft... not take any pictures.

http/www.brooklynspaceprogram.org/BSP/Home.html

 

[N.Broekhuijsen]

I watched this video somewhere else... it's not even an iPhone 4, it was a 3GS.

 

[webdev511]

[citation][nom]xantek24[/nom]thanks for making another hole in the ozone layer with THAT phone...[/citation]

That headline is a just an apple fanboi wet dream. Link bait at best.

http/blogs.suntimes.com/shinyobjects/2010/10/brooklyn_father_and_son_send_balloon_iphone_into_space_1.html

Where science, motion sickness and outer space meet, you'll find Luke Geissbuhler and his 7-year-old son Max. That's the father-son duo that took a fast food container, iPhone, small HD camera and a balloon and made their way, figuratively, into the stratosphere.
They used the iPhone for its GPS capability to track their experimental craft after it's rapid plunge back to Earth. And a Go Hero mountable HD camera that anyone can get for a couple hundred bucks to film the often rocky ride - upper atmosphere winds blast the craft around in upwards of 100 mph. But really, simple ingenuity is all that the project really cost.

THEY DID NOT TAKE PICTURES WITH THE IPHONE

 

[LuckyDucky7]

If the iPhone (which apparently already had a cracked screen, but regardless) was still under warranty and broke, they'd be refused service with 4 words- "You're launching it wrong."

Also, 19 miles (100,000 feet) is only about 4000 feet below where the highest skydiving record is.

They're trying to jump from 130,000 feet- at that point, a human passing through the atmosphere will reach Mach 1.3 at terminal velocity head-down.

So yeah, it's effectively space, but not quite.

 

[ghostie]

Marcus, it is your responsibility to report the news articles in a factually correct manner. It great film worth reporting on, but that is no iPhone 4 doing the recording.

 

[mlopinto2k1]

Jesus Christ! What is wrong with you people!? Can the guy get a HIGH FIVE for successfully flying an iPhone and an HD camera into the "STRATOSPHERE" for all you damn knit pickers. What the hell is this world coming to? That was AWESOME! Grow up people. Grow up.

 

[marcus_br]

Did they get some permit from the aviation agencies or get sure NO TYPE OF PLANE would even enter that sky limit?

I can see a thing with this weight and since easily causing MAJOR damage to aircraft, much worse if hitting a turbine.

 

[Mr Pizza]

[citation][nom]Smochina[/nom]Typical stupid journalist. The Iphone was there for it's gps, not for filming moron. THERE WAS A HD CAMERA RECORDING IDIOTS.[/citation]
Wow dude.. you get stuff off of wikipedia? That is sad.

 

[Mr Pizza]

[citation][nom]Mr Pizza[/nom]Wow dude.. you get stuff off of wikipedia? That is sad.[/citation]
[citation][nom]Mr Pizza[/nom]Wow dude.. you get stuff off of wikipedia? That is sad.[/citation]
wait not you....

 

[donovands]

iPhone speaks to Sasquatch. iPad claimed to be essential tool for ice-skating rodents. iPhone talks to the dead, says Elvis is not among them. iPad answers the question "What Would Jesus Do?". iPhone used to locate lost navel lint. Seriously, enough with the random Apple fluff pieces. They were amusing at first but have long since worn out their welcome.

 

[cptnjarhead]

i think that is a cool vid... like the iphone or not... and i do NOT!
as far as all this media hype.. well.. i think its ridiculous just because its an iphone.. maybe someone should send up a droid and a windows phone 7.. would they get the same publicity? i think not.
still a cool vid though.

 

[Sihastru]

Yeah, way to differentiate yourself from the quoted category, triple post and unable to find the edit button! Must be some bad pizza...

I am amazed however how a "cracked screen iPhone 3G + random HD camera" became an "iPhone 4 that took HD video from outer space".

 

[LePhuronn]

I don't even think it's a particularly cool video either

 

[N.Broekhuijsen]

[citation][nom]Sihastru[/nom]Yeah, way to differentiate yourself from the quoted category, triple post and unable to find the edit button! Must be some bad pizza...[/citation]It's tomsguide... no sh** he could not find the edit button... only tomshardware has that

 

[Toddosan]

yeah this was on HardOCP last week, your a little slow.