A standard issue Nexus One smart phone will be controlling a new satellite to be launched by the end of February 2012. Granted, it is a "nano satellite" just 30 cm long and weighing 4.3 kg.
Still, using a consumer smart phone as a satellite controller is novel.
A Strand-2 satellite is under development. For that generation of satellites, two cubesats will use the motion-sensing technology in Microsoft's XBox Kinect devices to locate each other in space and dock together.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Google Nexus 1 to Control Satellite, XBox Kincet Next, Seriously
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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