In an effort to show off what the newly announced G2's camera is capable of, LG offered up the handset for some intense experimentation sending a weather balloon to the edge of space. As you'll be able to see from the video above, the G2 not only survived the trip up to over 18 miles above earth and back but captured some pretty great video and stills along the way.

Now this clearly isn't a good way to show off the practical application of the G2's camera hardware and software. But you have to think that if the phone is capable of taking fantastic pictures under ridiculous conditions like this, it has to be able to do something good a bit closer to ground.

Be sure to watch the video through to the end, it's really quite interesting.