Google's crew, have came out with an "uncommon" idea in order to studying the Gingerbread-running Google Nexus S' sensors, such as GPS, gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer. To be exact, Google engineers came up with a 7 of payloads, each packing a Nexus S android smartphone, and sent them into the near space in order to do so.
These engineers put an APRS transmitter attached to a GPS that was known to work at high altitudes in each payload, along with the needed batteries. And of course, the carried Nexus S was also loaded with some
"mission-critical" apps such as Google Maps for Mobile 5.0, Google Sky Map and Latitude.
