All the stories tagged with geiger counter

Smart Radiation Detector is a gadget and app for the iPhone that detects radiation levels

07/13/2011, With the disasters in Japan finally dying down, the fact remains that there are certain parts of Japan which are still highly radiated and uninhabitable, and with reports about food containing high levels of radiation, one can never be too [...]

Polimaster PM1208M Geiger counter wristwatch

06/13/2011, Only in Japan can you get the Polimaster PM1208M Geiger counter wristwatch, and it is obvious and a no-brainer as to why this is going to be a best-seller in that part of the world, what with the nuclear plant [...]

Twitter-enabled Geiger counter a DIY project

05/11/2011, Human ingenuity at its best rears its head again – this time around, we are talking about a Twitter-powered Geiger counter that also sees a Netduino Plus kit running in tandem together. Technical program manager at Microsoft Fabien Royer managed [...]

iPhone radiation dock – yet another Japan-inspired device

04/19/2011, We’ve seen the DIY Arduino Geiger counter yesterday, but here is yet another Japan-inspired device, an iPhone radiation dock. This is part of the efforts involved to cleverly leverage the use of technology in order to help Japan with their [...]

Arduino Geiger counter is something Bruce Banner might want to carry around

04/18/2011, With the recent nuclear disaster over at Japan due to nature unleashing her destructive forces, even a well prepared nation like Japan with its triple threat “insurance” in its nuclear power plants were unable to envisage the double whammy of [...]

Sushi restaurant provides Geiger counter for peace of mind

03/24/2011, What would you expect to get when you step foot into a Japanese restaurant? Some of us would think of chopsticks and porcelain bowls, but this sushi restaurant in Taiwan is offering a handheld Geiger counter (a device which can [...]