Mobile phone adds brain to stratosphere research

Researchers at the University of Southampton are using mobile phone technology to boost the performance of weather balloons. starzmart
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"The idea of a weather balloon is far from being new, we use them quite a lot," University of Southampton lecturer Dr Andras Sobester told Electronics Weekly. "However, they use a rather patchy data link and you cannot recover your instrument because you won't know where it is."