The Icarus Project

[89coupe]

Check out the photos this guy took with a simple point and shoot camera by Canon using a weather baloon and a GPS tracking system.

This will blow your mind. www.robertharrison.org

Story here.
http://technology.canoe.ca/2010/03/26/13366796-qmi.html

[Go4Long]

psh...such bad lens distortion...the horizon looks all curvy.

lol. I keed of course...I've seen these around before, but still cool.

[blitz]

Been done a few times before, some highschool kids in South America and then some MIT students copied them about a year later...guess who got more press coverage?

[Jlude]

very cool

[Kloubek]

That is pretty cool.

...until a jet gets the cord caught in its engines, and 250 people die.

[D'z Nutz]

http://forums.beyond.ca/st/278298/mit-students-build-space-camera/

Although the video from this guy's project are pretty cool.