Launched into Space for $148

[Gator]

A bored MIT student launched a cell phone into the outer atmosphere, 17 miles above the earth, takes pictures of space, fails to get laid his senior year, impressed other nerds and did it all for the low price of $148

Cool pictures though
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/21/space.camera.icarus.ireport/index.html#cnnSTCPhoto

[IZ]

Looks more like Tatooine in pic 9. 

[Airborne]

90,000 feet is not anywhere near space but its still pretty cool.

[mitt]

By launch, I thought rocket, which would have been even cooler.

mitt

[Speeddog]

Getting a rocket up to 90k feet would indeed be cool, and he would have gotten a *lot* of attention. 

Good stuff for that budget, though! 

[JustMike]

more at

http://1337arts.com/

[Shifty]

  Awesome!

[causeofkaos]

fails to get laid his senior year,

that right there was the most important factor in his misscalculated equation.