The Google Nexus S isn’t just a really badass Android phone, it’s a space explorer. A team of Google engineers and University of California students have fired a selection of Google Nexus S phones into orbit to test how they function in the extreme cold and at altitude.Encased in styrofoam beer coolers, the seven Google Nexus S smarthones were taken to the edge of space beneath huge helium weather balloons. All the handsets survived their return to Earth making landfall with video of the atmosphere as the engineers and students intended.
The really interesting part of the project is that Google now plans to turn the guts of the Google Nexus S into the basis for small satellites. Zi Wang, Google Nexus S product manager at Google told New Scientist that the company is in talks with a UK-based satellite maker to get the project, literally, off the ground.
Out now | £varies | Google (via New Scientist)
