Cosmic rays found in smartphones

This is a misleading project name :(<p>It sounds like a statement or headline : &quot;read all about it: Cosmic Rays Found in Smartphones&quot;<p>Rather it could be better to say: &quot;help scientists detect cosmic rays with a crowd sourcing smartphone app&quot;

Can capacitive touchscreens be perhaps useful, with their much larger surface areas?<p>For perspective, in mid-2013, the combined screen area of just all the iPhones ever manufactured, was around 1.33 square km (<i>214.39 square feet</i>). Source: <a href="http://www.wired.com/2013/06/iphone-screens/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;iphone-screens&#x2F;</a>

Can anyone speak to the potential battery drain from this thing?<p>Sounds like a wicked idea though. Like a more modern seti@home.

Hmm, when I worked with light microscopes as an undergrad we used to find at least one pixel blown out completely in every image from a cosmic ray intersecting the CCD array. Looks like these guys are detecting tracks from particle decay affecting multiple pixels. Seems hard!

Direct link to the paper: <a href="http://crayfis.ps.uci.edu/paper.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;crayfis.ps.uci.edu&#x2F;paper.pdf</a>

FTP:<p><i>Extensive air showers generated by cosmic rays produce muons and high-energy photons, which can be detected by the CMOS sensors of smartphone cameras. </i><p>No this does not validate the “Cosmic Rays Entering Earth From Mars” hoax.

Something similar project name to folding@home would be awesome. Like rays@phone.

Ooh, clever!

They want everybody to volunteer to install an app that captures images while the phone is asleep? That is a surveillance state&#x27;s wet dream...