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Nexus S to serve as brain for 3 robots aboard the ISS (geek.com)
42 points by adeelarshad82 on July 8, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


I love seeing commercial hardware re-purposed for things like this. Sometimes we forget just how flexible these little devices we all carry around can be.

Second thought: Angry Birds in Sssspppaaaaaccceeee....


I think the Open Accessory was the most significant announcement of Google IO this year. It'll be interesting to see what kind of stuff comes out of it.


Here is a NASA page with more info about the Sphere project... http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/spheres_smart...


That's cool. This video is pretty neat too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl6lZbyLkzs


Do they wish that the Nexus S had an SD Card like I did?


"Hello, Dave."


I heard they tried to use an iPhone but the Chinese kept remotely hacking it with a simple pdf exploit.




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