Old Civil Defense survey meters like the V-715 are interesting conversation starters, but of very little practical use today. These devices were intended to be a sort of litmus test that survivors ...

There’s perhaps no sound more recognizable than the frantic clicking of a Geiger counter. Not because this is some post-apocalyptic world in which everyone is personally acquainted with the o… ...

Some were personal radiacmeters that showed the total dose an individual had received, and others looked more like geiger counters that were used to monitor people and their clothing, vehicles and ...

Scientists invented the Geiger counter, which measures radioactivity, while working on experiments to prove that the center of an atom contains a nucleus.

My counter (old Civil Defense version) from the 60s had a sample on the side. But I found some others. Standard smoke detector which has Americium (a soft radioactive silvery-white metal) which emits ...

The wild story by a former iPod engineer about how Apple helped make an iPod with a Geiger counter so the U.S. could covertly gather evidence of radioactivity within a city.

The iPod was modified with measurement hardware and a hidden storage partition according to a former Apple engineer.

Yes, you did read that right: a former senior Apple engineer says that the US government turned an iPod into a secret Geiger counter. Or, more precisely, a large US defense contractor turned an ...

The idea that Apple helped build a top-secret gizmo that detects and measures ionizing radiation inside an iPod sounds like the plot of a spy movie.