Showing posts with label iphone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iphone. Show all posts

29 December 2011

Behind-The-Scenes: Your bag's journey after you've checked in (video)

To promote a free mobile app that allows you to track your luggage, Delta Air Lines made the following video that shows you where your bags go after they pass through those black rubber flaps at the airport.
Due to "security reasons", and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the probably most interesting part of the bag's journey from Atlanta to New York in the US could not be filmed, but it is still good to see that they handle your luggage with a certain care at the two aiports. Let's just imagine that this is how they do it everywhere in the world. Thx Delta!

16 November 2011

Kenya: Spot wildlife with a camera-trap iPhone app

Biologists from the Zoological Society of London recently released a fascinating new iPhone App called "Instant WILD" which transmits images from motion-sensing cameras in Kenya and other locations (Sri Lanka, Mongolia & the UK) to your smartphone (iPhone only) whenever a creature wanders into view.
Those camera traps are a tool widely used in conservation work. They take a photo when a motion sensor detects movement within the field of view, and within a certain range. With the App you'll receive notifications (and the photo) when a camera you've elected to follow, such as the one in Kenya, takes a new photo.
The camera in Kenya is situated in communally owned land in the Tsavo-Amboseli ecosystem.
 Beside the fact the "Instant WILD" is a fun app to have (get us an Android version!!), the actual main idea behind the app is to help researchers monitoring wildlife by identifying the animals in these live photographs. Anyway, the "Instant WILD" app is for free and can be downloaded form Apple's App Store!