Keeping track of your carbon footprint can now be as easy as using your mobile phone, thanks to a new application named Carbon Diem.
Developed by a London based start–up company, the software enables mobile phones to use GPS (global positioning satellites) to automatically detect and calculate whether the phone user is walking, driving or flying. This data is then interpreted by the software, and calculated to work the amount of carbon emissions being released into the atmosphere.
According to Carbon Diem’s inventor Andreas Zachariah, the speed, movement and pattern of the phone user can be measured acuurately by GPS. The software’s programmed algorithm then processes the information to calculate what type of transport is being used.
To date, software the application has been tested on Blackberry and Nokia handsets and is reported to be released sometime next year.
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Igor 04.26.11 at 9:02 am
Are these phones good for spying? I mean, It is good to know what is your kid doing?! It is funny that there are no queries to track phones for spying on someones phone and they are being tracked?!