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May 15, 2009

Strange But True!

Q. How are all of us everyday users of cell phones helping to spur on the scientific revolution?

A. It's more a data revolution involving some 260 million subscribers in the U.S. alone, busily taking pictures, recording sounds, revealing locations, even measuring temperatures and sensing light, says Prachi Patel-Predd in IEEE Spectrum magazine.


 
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