http://vimeo.com/51823402 Tokyo based filmmaker Adrian Storey made this fantastic 3 minute documentary about Safecast for the Focus Forward Films competition and it’s made it to the semifinals! We’re really excited because not only is Adrian is an all around awesome dude, but he made an excellent film that hopefully many people will be able to…
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If you’ve been considering chipping in a few dollars to help our efforts at Safecast, now is an excellent time to do that as Global Giving is running a campaign where they are matching up to $100,000 in donations to selected Japan-related projects. So if you want to donated $10, Global Giving will kick in…
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We’re incredibly excited to announce the launch of the Safecast iOS app available in the App Store now. Last year we reached out to Nick Dolezal, creator of the most amazing GeigerBot, with some questions and ideas about his app. It didn’t take long for us to realize he would be a fantastic addition to…
I gave a presentation about Safecast at the Medicine X conference at Stanford today. There was a mix up with some of my slides and I’m not sure if I hit all the points I wanted to, and several people asked me afterwards if the presentation would be online so I thought I’d post it…
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If you are in Tokyo this week please stop by Radiex2012 (Sept. 24 – 26) and see us at Booth #118. We have lots of devices on display! 今週東京にいらっしゃる方、9月24日～26日まで、Radiex2012 エクスポ にSAFECASTとメドコム（Medcom）社がブース１１８号で出展します。是非、お知り合いやご友人を連れて訪ねてきてください。たくさんの新しいデバイスを展示しています。
Dan brought a box full of working prototypes of the Safecast X Kickstarter devices to Tokyo for Radiex2012 – FUN!! メドコム社のダン・サイス社長が
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At Safecast we’ve been using GitHub to manage our code and keep things synced between teams, but those have largely been small private repositories. I’m really excited to announce today that we’ve converted TeamData – the repository that manages the API and data uploads/exports – to public. This means anyone dive in and see what…
We’ll be at Radiex 2012 this week in Tokyo. If you are there, come see us! 今週東京で行われるRadiex 2012に出展します。展示会にお越しの際には、私達のブースにもお越しください！
http://vimeo.com/49450624 We’re excited to announce this morning that out of almost 900 submissions, along with LocalData, Development Seed (tools for Open Street Maps), Pop Up Archive, Open Elections and Census.IRE.org we have been selected as winners of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight News Challenge: Data. This grant will help us take…
FALLCAST has just been released. FALLCAST is a SAFECAST data browser for Windows Phone that allows you to view recorded radiation levels around you in near-real time plotted on a map. Download it hereFALLCAST がリリースされました。FALLCASTは、Windows Phone向けのSafecastデータブラウザです。このアプリを利用することで、ほぼリアルタイムに地図上にプロットされた、自分の周辺の放射線レベル記録を見ることができます。 ダウンロードはこちらからどうぞ。
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