Photography from space for $148

[Shawn Nelson]

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/...npu=1&mbid=yhp

[Eirik Tyrihjel]

Cool, good somebody didn´t get the thing in the head on it´s way down...
Maybe a sensible future upgrade would be a parachute, to keep those lawsuits away.

[Pawel Achtel]

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/...npu=1&mbid=yhp

So, how many baloons do we need to lift a Red One, Shawn?

[Frank Mirbach]

Cool project ! :)

[Mark Phelan]

I'm thinking that a Red One "Lawnchair Larry" shoot might be in order...

[Imran Farouk]

this will definitely happen with a scarlet at some point haha...

[Sean R.]

So next time someone says, "It can't be done, the budget just is not big enough"...

[Craig Ryan]

Someone already beat these guys to it earlier this year:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...d-balloon.html

It was posted here too. Cool stuff either way.