Sunday January 25, 2015
How your smartphone could help predict the weather
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- If the kids don't have wi-fi, the school bus will it bring it to them
- This app lets you lend your eyes to people who are blind
- The hidden social reality behind digital labour
- How your smartphone could help predict the weather
- The Digital Economy: Capitalism 2.0?
- Full Episode
Many new smartphones and tablets now contain an internal barometer. Since barometric pressure can be an efficient indicator of short-term weather changes, Jacob Sheehy wondered if the pressure readings our phones collect could be used to get more accurate weather forecasts. So he came up with an app called PressureNet.