If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times, working in this industry occasionally doses you with some Wow moments of “this is the future.”  I just so happened to awake this fine Monday morning to be bombarded with yet another of these, and it’s stuff like this that makes me very pleased to be writing about, and working in such a rad industry.

Today’s wow moment comes at the hand of a potential use of your ordinary cell phone in a much bigger, much broader, and much more awesomely important task:  Warding off a terrorist attack.  Believe it.  According to the article I just read:

“Researchers at Purdue University of West Lafayette are working with the state of Indiana to develop a system that would use a network of cell phones to detect and track radiation to help prevent terrorist attacks with radiological “dirty bombs” and nuclear weapons…” 

Say WHAT?!  That’s right, CELL phones might provide the essential link to stopping and avoiding a nasty terrorist attack that None of us want to see on CNN later.  It’s stuff like this that makes having GPS in your phone a whole lot more impressive than we ever thought possible.  I love it.