Scosche’s RDTX is a radiation detector for your iPhone. Seriously, it turns your iPhone into a Geiger counter — you just attach the wand to your iPhone and the RDTX will tell you the radiation levels around you.
Once attached to your phone, the RDTX displays results in a digital scale or classic green/yellow/red analogue needle on your iPhone. The radiation detector can even average out how much radiation you expose yourself to, find out the total dosage, ring an alarm if it gets too high and even update Twitter/Facebook/Google Maps (to map out radiation levels). It’s only out in Japan right now (and for good reason, obviously) but could be extremely anywhere nuclear disasters may happen. [Scosche via DVICE]
wsDK_II
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 7:51 AMi think you mean “you can display detected radiation with an iPhone”
the iPhone does not detect it.
olearymo
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 12:08 PMThank you. If my hand is holding a Geiger counter, my hand is not detecting radiation.
EckyThump
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 9:05 AMThe usefulness of this device aside, Why would a company like this make a device and app just specifically for Iphone? Surely they are alienating themselves from a large chunk of the non iPhone market? Seems very strange to me!
Bastard Sheep
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 1:23 PMThe “ghost hunter” frauds/quacks out there are going to go crazy with this when it is released outside Japan.
Steve
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 8:17 PMYou can buy stand-alone GM-Tubes about the same size as that detecting piece alone these days and considerable more sensitive, cheaper and versatile.
What’s the point in buying one of these if the iPhone isn’t doing anything but serve as a display?
“The radiation detector can even average out how much radiation you expose yourself to, find out the total dosage, ring an alarm if it gets too high”
Normal GM-tubes do this already. Hell, even disposable Personal Radiation Monitors (the kinds used in radiology departments) can do pretty much everything this can. If you really want to update your status to twitter, just carry your iPhone with you and do it the normal way.