Tat Wza for TatsTechTalk

A father and son from Brooklyn sent an iPhone into space a few weeks ago to record a video of the earth and its shape.

The object they sent it was made of a weather balloon and a styrofoam case for the iPhone…and it took 8 months of testing and researching before its launch in Newburgh, NY a few weeks back.

The phone apparently braved winds of 100 miles-per-hour and temperatures as cold as 60 below zero (the iPhone was smartly packed with hand warmers).

The recorded video shows the phone reaching a height of 100,000 feet before the balloon burst, plummeting it back to earth, where it landed 30 miles from the launch point, in a tree, where the father and son found it in the dark because of the iPhone’s LED light.

HP