Your iPhone can find a lot of stuff: taxis, toilets, cafés, nearby sexual partners. How cute! And pitiable. While you've been scouting the best place to poop, Harvard researchers are working on an app that finds landmines.
Landmines detection is still surprisingly rudimentary: a human being waves a metal detector over the ground, and listens for audible cues that's there's something metal underground. But that poses a lot of problems. There's a lot of metal junk in the ground where stuff is blowing up all the time. Worse, operators have to be able to pick out mines from debris without losing life or limb. They do that by listening to beeps as they make passes trying to figure out what shape that metal thing underground is. It's hard!
Enter PETALS: pattern enhancement tool for assisting land mine sensing. The basic idea is that it allows anyone, even an inexperienced sweeper, to determine if there's a landmine and where it is. The app receives data from a metal detector and creates a visualization of the spatial pattern below ground. It helps reduce judgement calls in determining if something is or isn't a mine, making de-mining easier, safer and faster.
22 comments:
O_o This is exist really ?
Quite funny actually if it does
so there really is an app for everything. :)
cool, I still need a metal detector right?
Never been a fan of the iphone, but this is awesome.
Awesome post man! Great find! Keep up the good blogging!
I knew my only 3gs was good for something!! + Followed!!!
surely this is a hoax.
I think if you live in an area that still has active land mines then you probably couldn't own an iPhone anyway.
finally a useful application for the iPhone
As cool as this is, you still need the metal detector, the iPhone can't do it by itself.
Wow! Something that is actually REALLY useful that comes out on the iPhone/iTouch. I wonder if you could use that for buried treasure as well...
By the way, I love SNSD. I haven't heard Mr. Taxi until now, but I love it. Thanks for that too!
This makes the iphone so much more badass haha
Nice iphone technology!!!
Ahh and just as I thought the iPhone couldn't get any more cooler. I read this. Booyah.
Haha, when will they make this for android?
then we learn that iPhones really ARE landmines. Mind Blown.
That's prolly saying something, that they went with an iphone for this.
really?
Why dont I have an iphone yet?!
i dont see how this will be helpful to the average person, lol
I can't tell if this is real, but I believe it.
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