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03/15/2011: Google donates Android phones to the project.

02/18/2011: Microsoft donates Windows Phone 7 phones to the project.

Cheap, multi-platform sensors. With a little tweaking, I assume they could transmit data over a phone line. This means you don’t have to build for any specific target platform: any no-name, off-brand phone in some Harare phone shop can record data.

What happens when we bake these into a toxin module, and distribute them to people in LDCs? It’ll be a lot easier to start seeing evidence and location of toxic spills, chemical safety violations, whatever.

A cheap platform shouldn’t be hampered by any specific pathway: we’re building a parasite here, people.

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