Want reassurance the vegetables you’re eating have been grown without pesticides? Wondering how much radiation or electromagnetic pollution is in your child’s room or in your home office?
Soon, you won’t have to rely on organic food labels or an expensive monitoring system for those answers. You’ll be able to investigate for yourself with a nifty new mobile application from Lapka Electronics LLC.
The company is testing a system of small sensors that collect information about environmental conditions including radiation, electromagnetic fields, and humidity levels.
Sensors feed the data into a mobile app that runs on an Apple iPhone, which alerts you if measurements exceed acceptable levels.
“For example, you can measure radiation on an airplane and a little bit higher level will be okay, because the app knows you won’t stay there for 24 hours and that higher radiation is common for planes,” the company’s creative director, Vadik Marmeladov told Fast Company Co.Design. “But with the same level of radiation in your kid’s bedroom it will alarm you and give you an explanation to motivate your further actions. So, people don’t have to rely on their knowledge about radiation anymore to protect their family and themselves.”
The Lapka "personal environment monitor" also includes a steel probe that tests for nitrates in food or drinking water caused by synthetic fertilizers – a sure sign that what you’re eating is not organic.
Currently in prototype testing, the system will cost about $220 and is due to hit the market in December.
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