Thursday, October 30, 2008

oh good, I'm not the only one

NY Times has an article on Dynolicious, for iPhone, lets you record the 1/4 mile times of cars via the iPhone's accelerometer.


Or anything else you happen to be riding in...

Airbus 320
0-60 11.82s
1/4 mi 19.11s @ 106.5 mph

Boeing 737-500
0-60 12.92s
1/4 mi 20.01s @ 95.4 mph

Airbus 319
0-60 13.18s
1/4 mi 20.4s @ 93 mph

Boeing 757
0-60 13.52s
1/4 mi 20.56s @ 97.7 mph

Boeing 747-400
0-60 14.29s
1/4 mi 21.18s @ 90.3 mph

BART
0-50 24.11s
1/4 mi 23.58s @ 49 mph

Accelerometers are cool.  How else would you end up knowing these numbers?  What other machines -- elevators, roller coasters, ferries, etc -- would generate interesting results?

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