Lol how cool is this, iTricorder here we come

Summary:

People have been trying to turn cellphones into medical and atmospheric scanners for some time now, but when it’s NASA stepping up to the plate with a little device to monitor trace amounts of chemicals in the air, it’s hard to not start thinking we might finally have a use for all those tricorder ringtones. Developed by a team of researchers at the Ames Research Center led by Jing Li, the device is a small chip that plugs into the bottom of an iPhone and uses 16 nanosensors to detect the concentration of gasses like ammonia, chlorine, and methane……

- http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/13/nasa-turnes-iphone-into-chemical-sensor-can-an-app-store-reject/

Engadget – Related stories

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/portable-medical-scanners-built-to-interface-with-cellphones/

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/facebook-app-developer-rejects-app-store-irony-ensues/

NASA Original Article.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/features/2009/cell_phone_sensors.html