[:en]Google just released an app which might appeal to budding scientists. It’s called Science Journal, and measures and records data in real-time by using the sensors embedded in Android phones.
The Science Journal app allows you to gather data from the world around you. By using the phone’s sensors, it measures elements in your environment, like light and sound, so you can graph data, record experiments, and organise questions and ideas.
If your main aim is to take over the world, instead of conducting small experiments for your own amusement, this might not be your cup of tea. Its main objective is to get children involved and interested in science, but it can still be fun for the adult who still wants to play.
The app is part of a larger Google initiative called The Making & Science Initiative which believes anyone can be a scientist by observing your everyday life, figuring out how things work and creating projects to improve the world.
Science Journal also allows you to make notes about your experiments and keep a digital journal – just in case you make that breakthrough discovery and forgot how it happened.
It is available as a free download from the Google Play Store and needs a smartphone running on Android 4.4 KitKat to install the 14MB app.
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Google het onlangs ʼn toepassing vrygestel wat jou innerlike wetenskaplike sal aanwakker. Science Journal meet en neem intyds data op deur middel ingeboude sensors in Android-fone.
Met die Science Journal-toepassing kan jy data insamel vanuit jou omgewing. Die toepassing gebruik die foonsensors om lig en klank, te meet, sodat jy die data grafies kan voorstel, eksperimente kan opneem en vrae en idees kan opneem.
As jou doel is om die wêreld oor te neem soos ʼn wafferse, bose wetenskaplike, is hierdie dalk nie heeltemal vir jou nie. Dis wel gepas vir in plaas van klein eksperimentjies vir jou eie vermaak.
Die hoofdoel van Google se nuwe projek is om kinders opgewonde oor en betrokke by wetenskap te kry. Moet egter nie dink volwassenes kan dit nie geniet nie; hulle kan net so lekker weteskaplike speel.
Science Journal is deel van Google se groter inisiatief, The Making & Science Initiative. Dit glo dat enigiemand ʼn wetenskaplike kan wees as hy net die alledaagse dophou, probeer verstaan hoe dit werk en projekte skep wat dalk ʼn impak op die wêreld kan maak.
Met Science Journal kan jy ook ʼn digitale joernaal hou en notas maak van jou eksperimente – net vir ingeval jy `n wetenskaplike deurbraak maak en vergeet het wat jy gedoen het.
Die toepassing is gratis beskikbaar op die Google Play-winkel en jy het ʼn slimfoon met Android 4.4 KitKat nodig om die 14MB toepassing te installeer.
Lees ook meer oor Google se ander projekte, onder andere ʼn modulêre selfoon en slim klere.
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