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hey this is Ellis with the verge checking out Lepke 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 piece of fruit is in real human ways and not in hard to understand scientific numbers Lepke 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 like what might be comfortable for you know 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 so we're in the clear here with green but you know if you were in bad shape it would be red the next census 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 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 census we're going to look at measures how organic your food is based on the electrical conductivity which heavenly 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 eight point one 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 you plug it in it instantly pops up and here's the meter right here so based on where you hold this you're gonna 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 cell signals and all sorts of stuff flying around it's gonna 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 Lepke knows once you start measuring your surroundings every day or every few days lab code 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 Lepke launches today in the United States for two hundred and twenty dollars 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