On YouTube gaining popularity video in which enthusiast Colin fers sent into the stratosphere several phones HTC One. He turned the experiment into a real show, showing how Earth looks from a height of more than 30 km
Fers raised smartphones to unprecedented heights with the help of the balloon. So they broke in the fall, he put them in boxes made of polystyrene, securing with tape. But it helped, and gadgets remained intact.
The entire flight, the phones went on to shoot the video despite the fact that the temperature outside dropped to minus 65 degrees Celsius. At the height of 6 thousand meters, the experimenter provided is not very big fireworks. From design with the ball and gadgets separated not very large pistol. Above the fireworks could not be - would not be enough oxygen for ignition of rockets. Climbing into the stratosphere, "smartphones-stratosphere pilots" captured the Earth, moon and Sun.
At a height of 32 kilometers-balloon bursts and smartphones fall without getting noticeable damage. Earlier in the stratosphere sent smartphones LG and iPhone, and is also quite successful.
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