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Google's 'Science Journal' App Turns Your Android Device Into A Laboratory (pcmag.com)
An anonymous reader writes about Google's latest 'Science Journal' app that was released at the end of Google I/O last week: Google has launched its 'Science Journal' app that can essentially turn your Android device into a tricorder of sorts. The app uses the sensors in your smartphone to gather, graph and visualize data. For example, you can use Google's Science Journal app to measure sound in a particular area over a particular period of time, or the movement of the device's internal accelerometers. The app is fairly basic to start, but Google is working to expand its functionality. It's even partnering with San Francisco's Exploratorium to develop external kits that can be used with the app -- which includes various microcontrollers and other sensors. As part of its Google Field Trip Days initiative, which allows students from underserved communities to attend a local museum for no cost and includes transportation and lunch, Google sent out 120,000 kits to local science museums. They also sent out 350,000 different pairs of safety glasses to schools, makerspaces, and Maker Faires worldwide, to ultimately help young students work on even bigger projects. You can download the app from the Play Store and start experimenting here.
Now make some actual usable math software for modern portable devices. And make it programmable and have connectivity to such external kits.
Ezekiel 23:20
Tones of mobile devices taking all kinds of readings and interpreting the data in a meaningful way. ,see and hear everything around you and log your conversations, when they can get detailed scans and biometrics to add to there database.
After all, why stop with letting Google track everywhere you go
I'm so glad that Google is using "field trip days" to impress on our young people just how important it is to carry a detailed omnidirectional dataloger every where they go.