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Subject:Re: Altimeter for dash?
From:David Beierl
Date:Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:25:48 -0400

At 08:59 PM 8/14/2010 Saturday, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>May have a tiny vial of mercury.  After all, phones and other
>electronic devices have all sorts of toxic materials in them without
>disclosure, why not mercury?  When the mercury horizon is tilted, a
>circuit could detect that.  See:

This is what the iphone contains:
http://www.st.com/stonline/products/literature/ds/12726.pdf

Digikey will sell them to you or $11 in onesies,  $5.15 if you want 5,000.

Other such phones use similar chips.

These are all a result of learning how to make fairly complicated
microscopic physical structures in silicon.

Yours,
David