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App That Lets You See The Cell Towers, Wifi Signals And Satellites Around You by GeniusDavid(m): 8:28am On Nov 28, 2015
Wireless devices like cellphones, tablets, and laptops send out signals that are all around us, but completely invisible to the naked eye. Electromagnetic radiation is everywhere that is transmitted from millions of towers and Wi-Fi routers, which create a pulsating and invisible world around us.

A Dutch artist named Richard Vijgen, who is also a programmer from Netherlands has created a new iOS app called Architecture of Radio, which uses your GPS location to give a 360 degree visualization of the unseen digital world.

“We are increasingly dependent on a global ecosystem of digital signals. We use them for so many things, yet we cannot see them,” reads Vijgen’s description of the app. “We can see the roads we use to travel, the buildings we live in, but not the infrastructure that is changing the world.”

Using datasets of almost 7 million cell towers, 19 million Wi-Fi routers, and hundreds of satellites, this $3 augmented reality app created by Richard Vijgen plots the ‘infosphere,’ the intricate network of signals both wired and wireless.

‘The purpose of this app is to make the invisible visible so we can look at it, think about it and discuss it,’ the iTunes description says.

The app plots the densities of digital signals, like radio waves, which exist outside the spectrum of visible light on a 3-D moving graph.

According to the App website, it is site-specific, and works by ‘reversing the ambient nature of the infosphere; hiding the visible while revealing the invisible technological landscape we interact with through our devices’.

[url]Wireless devices like cellphones, tablets, and laptops send out signals that are all around us, but completely invisible to the naked eye. Electromagnetic radiation is everywhere that is transmitted from millions of towers and Wi-Fi routers, which create a pulsating and invisible world around us.

A Dutch artist named Richard Vijgen, who is also a programmer from Netherlands has created a new iOS app called Architecture of Radio, which uses your GPS location to give a 360 degree visualization of the unseen digital world.

“We are increasingly dependent on a global ecosystem of digital signals. We use them for so many things, yet we cannot see them,” reads Vijgen’s description of the app. “We can see the roads we use to travel, the buildings we live in, but not the infrastructure that is changing the world.”

Using datasets of almost 7 million cell towers, 19 million Wi-Fi routers, and hundreds of satellites, this $3 augmented reality app created by Richard Vijgen plots the ‘infosphere,’ the intricate network of signals both wired and wireless.

‘The purpose of this app is to make the invisible visible so we can look at it, think about it and discuss it,’ the iTunes description says.

The app plots the densities of digital signals, like radio waves, which exist outside the spectrum of visible light on a 3-D moving graph.

According to the App website, it is site-specific, and works by ‘reversing the ambient nature of the infosphere; hiding the visible while revealing the invisible technological landscape we interact with through our devices’.

[/url]Wireless devices like cellphones, tablets, and laptops send out signals that are all around us, but completely invisible to the naked eye. Electromagnetic radiation is everywhere that is transmitted from millions of towers and Wi-Fi routers, which create a pulsating and invisible world around us.

A Dutch artist named Richard Vijgen, who is also a programmer from Netherlands has created a new iOS app called Architecture of Radio, which uses your GPS location to give a 360 degree visualization of the unseen digital world.

“We are increasingly dependent on a global ecosystem of digital signals. We use them for so many things, yet we cannot see them,” reads Vijgen’s description of the app. “We can see the roads we use to travel, the buildings we live in, but not the infrastructure that is changing the world.”

Using datasets of almost 7 million cell towers, 19 million Wi-Fi routers, and hundreds of satellites, this $3 augmented reality app created by Richard Vijgen plots the ‘infosphere,’ the intricate network of signals both wired and wireless.

‘The purpose of this app is to make the invisible visible so we can look at it, think about it and discuss it,’ the iTunes description says.

The app plots the densities of digital signals, like radio waves, which exist outside the spectrum of visible light on a 3-D moving graph.

According to the App website, it is site-specific, and works by ‘reversing the ambient nature of the infosphere; hiding the visible while revealing the invisible technological landscape we interact with through our devices’.

You can now download the $3 iOS app for iPhone or iPad from here ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/architecture-of-radio/id1035160239?mt=8 ) When you fire it up, you see a cobalt-blue screen where the app takes your GPS location and loads a series of datasets drawn from a global database that includes the cell towers around you and the satellites overhead. The Android version of the app is expected to roll out soon.

Source: Techworm.net

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Re: App That Lets You See The Cell Towers, Wifi Signals And Satellites Around You by Confessng: 8:30am On Nov 28, 2015
Quite innovative, unfortunately more people are interested in the visible and may not be interested in this app
Re: App That Lets You See The Cell Towers, Wifi Signals And Satellites Around You by cirmuell(m): 10:46am On Nov 28, 2015
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Re: App That Lets You See The Cell Towers, Wifi Signals And Satellites Around You by Nobody: 2:46pm On Nov 28, 2015
kool.
Re: App That Lets You See The Cell Towers, Wifi Signals And Satellites Around You by Lollifox: 4:11pm On Nov 28, 2015
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Re: App That Lets You See The Cell Towers, Wifi Signals And Satellites Around You by Youngpo413: 8:24pm On Nov 28, 2015
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