Information Madness

What can you do with your mobile phone? If it's a regular cell phone, you can talk and text but don't under estimate the power of iPhone and its fanboys. You can drive your car with an iPhone or you can send a weather balloon and capture the space video with your iPhone.

It's true, A father-and-son team, and others from the “Brooklyn Space Program,” launched a weather balloon into the stratosphere along with an iPhone HD video camera that captured virtually the entire flight.

The team placed some hand-warmers inside a specially built insulated capsule that held the camera and an iPhone, which, through its GPS capabilities, allowed the team to track it down once it landed.The video shows it all (though unfortunately the batteries temporarily gave out due to cold about 2 minutes before touchdown).

The team was made up of Max Geissbuhler, a 7-year-old, and his father Luke. To everyone's amazement, the camera landed just 30 miles away after flying over 90,000 feet straight up into near-outer space and enduring 100 mph winds before bursting its balloon and sailing home with a parachute.

Check out the video of iPhone weather Balloon

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