On September 30, 1882, German physicist Johannes Wilhelm Geiger was born. He is best known as the co-inventor of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger–Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus.
Entwickler von der Universität Aachen haben ein Smartphone zum Fußgänger-Navigationssystem umgebaut, das bei Bedarf ohne GPS und WLAN-auskommt, indem es Schritte zählt.
If you're not following along with the great work RDTN is doing to create networks of radiation sensors, check out just one of their projects: iGeigie, a geiger counter that plugs into your iPhone.
This is a REAL odometer style javascript counter, where you can actually see the numbers spining. No Flash, it's all css and javascript. It can serve multiple purposes, like a live visit counter or a cashier style counter on a shopping website. Well, anything that involves updating a numeric value dynamically. It can also be used a fixed counter, like the one you can generate with a server script, but of course that isn't nearly as much fun as updating it in real time.
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