In what seems to be a response to public fears about radiation levels following the Fukushima crisis, a Japanese organization called Radiation Watch has launched Pocket Geiger, a Geiger counter iPhone ...

Android: Getting one step closer to turning your phone into a tricorder, Android app Radioactivity Counter uses the CMOS camera sensor on your phone to record radiation levels. Granted this app is ...

Japan-based Sanwa has announced the so-called Geiger Fukushima [JP], a portable and light (70g) geiger counter that uses the iPhone to measure beta and gamma rays in your environment. Just connect the ...

Next time you’re waiting in the security line in an airport, why don’t you pull out your smartphone and count all the radiation being emitted by those body scanners and x-rays? There’s an app for that ...

There were a few days this winter, actually quite a few days, when I would’ve loved having the Sickweather app on my wrist. And about five of those days were during the Consumer Electronics Show, a ...

I got some Geiger tubes a few days ago and built a very simple Geiger counter circuit that is powered entirely through the microphone jack (microphone connection provides a little power for things ...

Sergey Vladimirov has this week launched a new Kickstarter campaign for his pocket geiger counter called Radium which has been designed to provide a professional yet easy-to-use geiger counter.

But this time it’s exclusive to the iPhone4. Geiger counters seem to be the new trend in smartphones these days, what with the huge Japanese phone market located in an area blighted with radiation. Of ...

A Geiger counter, also known as the Geiger-Muller tube, is an inexpensive and useful instrument used to quickly detect and measure radiation. There are two types of radiation, non-ionizing and ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: September 30, 1882, 136 years ago today, and COUNTING ... the day the future physicist Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger was born in Germany. Geiger ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_9eHxCQkRs&feature=player_embedded#!] For your perusal: a Geiger counter made in the style of HR Giger. Why? Because this is ...