INTEL Mobile phones could breathe

CALIFORNIA (SuaraMedia News) - Researchers at Intel Labs Berkeley, California, designed a prototype mobile phone that can 'breathe'. in the sense that it can absorb air phone at the same time remove the data about the condition of the surrounding air to measure air quality.

Phone prototypes developed by these researchers, is expected to help every mobile phone user to monitor air quality. It is also to complement the 4000 stationary monitors used by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

"This is an idea called" citizen science ". By reading the condition of air pollution will certainly be useful," said Allison Woodruff, a researcher at Intel Labs as reported by CNN.

Woodruff said that, first, mobile phone users can help governments to identify locations that have air quality problems that may be overlooked by government monitors. Section, monitor the government's air quality monitors tend to have distance limitations.

Detection of this pollution can be useful for several reasons, said Allison Woodruff, scientific researchers from Intel.

The device can give regulators a troubled area where the air and previously unknown by the government.
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