Handy radiation checker comes to iPhone
THANK GOD WE'RE SAVED
iPhone users can now download a free iPhone app to tell them what local radiation levels are, in case they've not got enough to worry about.
The new application is available worldwide, though you'd have to take paranoia to a new level to worry about spreading radiation from Japan if you weren't actually nearby: even then you should probably worry about rebuilding the country's infrastructure more than media-hyped threats of radiation poisoning.
The data for the app, called Radiation Information and published by Qnuouo, comes from the Japanese Ministry of Education, scraped from the ATMC site which already provides charts based on government feeds.
Those disinclined to trust the government can see how safe they are from the crowd-sourced Failed Robot, which mashes network-connected Geiger counters into Google Maps, but there's no iPhone app for that yet.
We're sure it won't be long - the mobile app developers aren't quite as quick as the Trojan-writing scammers to take advantage of people's credulity and fear, but they aren't far behind. ®
COMMENTS
nah
It's aimed at the credulous New Jerusalem liberals currently wittering away about how they're going to get pedophile AIDS cancer from the evil radiation monster. Such people can mostly afford whatever luck they need.
Windows = better!
For most people (especially if you live in Cornwall) the main risk is from Radon. Opening your house windows every now and again will reduce the amount of Radon in your house.
Nuclear free
Presumably after doing that, they fitted a 20cm thick lead sheet under the town to protect it from all the nucleides in the Earth (the things that are keeping the middle warm).
Then they fitted one over the top to protect you all from the stuff coming from space, and finally fitted a wall all the way around so that they don't annoy any of the towns nearby with their stupid, useless pondering?
You're holding it wrong...
The fake geiger counter apps I've seen use the iPhone's motion sensor to let you rig the results. Hold the phone flat and you get a low reading. Tilt it slightly and you get a nice high reading to scare your friends with
But I cant be affected by radiation...
.....I'm sure my local council declared my town a nuclear free zone back in the early 80's!!
