 Hey, this is Ellis with The Verge checking out Lapka launching on December 11th. It's a personal environment monitor for your iPhone that helps you see things like radiation around you or how organic a piece of fruit is in real human ways and not in hard to understand scientific numbers. Lapka comes with a free app from the App Store that lets you measure all the different kinds of things you can check out around you. So the first thing you can do is plug it in using the headphone jack just like you're using a square card reader. And as soon as you plug it in, we plugged in the radiation meter to begin with. You can actually see the different presets for what might be comfortable on a plane where you might see a lot of radiation or for a baby where you might want even less radiation. So you can actually see this animation at the bottom shows an actual representation of the radiation around you. We're in the clear here with green, but if you were in bad shape, it would be red. The next sensor we're going to look at is the humidity and temperature meter, which aims to show you if you are in a comfortable location to be working or sleeping or have your baby in a comfortable room. So you can select between Celsius and Fahrenheit, so we'll pick Fahrenheit here. So once again, you have these presets for different types of places you might want to be and you tap this to start measuring. Once the reading is complete, you can see we're at 29% relative humidity and the temperature is 70 degrees Fahrenheit up here, so it's pretty comfortable. If you swipe to the side here, you also have your exact location of where you are, so you can keep track and create a map. The next sensor we're going to look at measures how organic your food is based on the electrical conductivity, which commonly measures the amount of nitrogen in the food that comes from cheap fertilizers and stuff like that. So ideally, there'd be no electrical conductivity, but there might be. So you pop that off, which is a nice little magnetic clasp, and you are going to straight up pierce the apple right here. So the results are in. We have 8.1 milligrams per liter of nitrogen in this apple, which is pretty good. If you want to share your results, you can use this little arrow right here to mail your findings to a friend. Once they click this link, they can see that exact animation and your exact measurements that you found right there on their computer. The last sensor we're checking out detects electromagnetic fields, high frequency and low frequency around you. So when you plug it in, it instantly pops up, and here's the meter right here. So based on where you hold this, you're going to get different results. Right now, you can see the electromagnetic fields are pretty low, but if you do something like hold this out the window where there are cell signals and all sorts of stuff flying around, it's going to be a lot higher. So while the electromagnetic fields might not be that strong over in the office, how about in front of the microwave? Let's give it a shot. And just like that, Labca knows. Once you start measuring your surroundings every day or every few days, Labca captures all this stuff so you can look at it again and share it. So you can swipe through your days like this, and the name of the day is actually depending on the types of results you're getting. Labca launches today in the United States for $220 and soon elsewhere. It starts with these four sensors, but the company is hoping to expand to other things like measuring your air quality to make your life a little bit more fun and scientific in an accessible way.
 Hey, this is Ellis with The Verge checking out Lapka launching on December 11th.
 It's a personal environment monitor for your iPhone that helps you see things like radiation
 around you or how organic a piece of fruit is in real human ways and not in hard to understand
 scientific numbers.
 Lapka comes with a free app from the App Store that lets you measure all the different kinds
 of things you can check out around you.
 So the first thing you can do is plug it in using the headphone jack just like you're
 using a square card reader.
 And as soon as you plug it in, we plugged in the radiation meter to begin with.
 You can actually see the different presets for what might be comfortable on a plane where
 you might see a lot of radiation or for a baby where you might want even less radiation.
 So you can actually see this animation at the bottom shows an actual representation
 of the radiation around you.
 We're in the clear here with green, but if you were in bad shape, it would be red.
 The next sensor we're going to look at is the humidity and temperature meter, which
 aims to show you if you are in a comfortable location to be working or sleeping or have
 your baby in a comfortable room.
 So you can select between Celsius and Fahrenheit, so we'll pick Fahrenheit here.
 So once again, you have these presets for different types of places you might want to
 be and you tap this to start measuring.
 Once the reading is complete, you can see we're at 29% relative humidity and the temperature
 is 70 degrees Fahrenheit up here, so it's pretty comfortable.
 If you swipe to the side here, you also have your exact location of where you are, so you
 can keep track and create a map.
 The next sensor we're going to look at measures how organic your food is based on the electrical
 conductivity, which commonly measures the amount of nitrogen in the food that comes
 from cheap fertilizers and stuff like that.
 So ideally, there'd be no electrical conductivity, but there might be.
 So you pop that off, which is a nice little magnetic clasp, and you are going to straight
 up pierce the apple right here.
 So the results are in.
 We have 8.1 milligrams per liter of nitrogen in this apple, which is pretty good.
 If you want to share your results, you can use this little arrow right here to mail your
 findings to a friend.
 Once they click this link, they can see that exact animation and your exact measurements
 that you found right there on their computer.
 The last sensor we're checking out detects electromagnetic fields, high frequency and
 low frequency around you.
 So when you plug it in, it instantly pops up, and here's the meter right here.
 So based on where you hold this, you're going to get different results.
 Right now, you can see the electromagnetic fields are pretty low, but if you do something
 like hold this out the window where there are cell signals and all sorts of stuff flying
 around, it's going to be a lot higher.
 So while the electromagnetic fields might not be that strong over in the office, how
 about in front of the microwave?
 Let's give it a shot.
 And just like that, Labca knows.
 Once you start measuring your surroundings every day or every few days, Labca captures
 all this stuff so you can look at it again and share it.
 So you can swipe through your days like this, and the name of the day is actually depending
 on the types of results you're getting.
 Labca launches today in the United States for $220 and soon elsewhere.
 It starts with these four sensors, but the company is hoping to expand to other things
 like measuring your air quality to make your life a little bit more fun and scientific
 in an accessible way.