Scientists monitor labs with mobile phones

British Scientists have devised a way to monitor experiment conditions from mobile phones, allowing them to leave the laboratories using mobile technology. As the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk reports, the software, called "middleware", allows different computer systems to talk to each other securely and instantaneously. The experiment is being carried out by Southampton University http://www.soton.ac.uk , where a team of chemists are studying experiment conditions from their mobile phones. Sensors in the laboratory pick up any changes in the environment so the system can alert chemists, wherever they are.