My brother found this, but he is too afraid of the internet to post something in the comments on my previous post about acceleration and the iphone. It turns out that this too awesome to just be in a comment. It deserves its own note.
Anyway, I was looking for acceleration data from the iPhone and this guy put one in his model rocket.
iPhone Rocket Launch and Interview (from MobileOrchard.com) from Mobile Orchard on Vimeo.
Here is some more detail (with graphs!) about the iPhone model rocket.
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