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Spinach May Soon Power Mobile Devices
neutron_p writes "For the first time, MIT researchers have incorporated a plant's ability to convert sunlight to energy into a solid-state electronic "spinach sandwich" device that may one day power laptops and cell phones."
The Apple PopiPod, now with Bluto size capacity.
I think I see Pop-eye using their laptops in incredibly effective infomercials now! Will Bluto be using the regular crummy "battery-powered" laptops?
I sell out to The Man every day.
organic notebook. Does that make it a cyborg?
Hivemind harvest in progress..
You MIT bastards are gonna pay!
Fine just as long as i don't have to eat it.
*waits to hear all the lame Popeye jokes...
Let's just hope that "People for the Ethical Treatment of Vegetables" doesn't find out.
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If only the Dell Dude would have had access to this technology!
"I swear dude, I'm holding it for my laptop! Dude!"
Even now, I miss him. *sniff* dude *sniff*
You know you live in the 21st century, when your cell phone is better suited to perform photosynthesis than it is to talk to other people.
Huk-kuk-kug-kug-kug... oh...whaddya know there... nows I can call Olive on me spinachk-phone.
(c'mon! someone had to make the reference!)
We've been using Olive Oil to create light, now spinache to create power, sadly Bluto isn't a viable power source.
On the other hand, if we could generate some form of alternative fuel out of cheeseburgers we wouldn't have to pay until Tuesday.
Oddly enough I was thinking about this in the shower this morning. Of course all I was thinking was "Hey I wonder if you could use a plant's ATP producing ability like a battery?" I didn't actually figure out how to do it in the shower, just that it would be cool. This is much more impressive.
I tried for 5 years to come up with a clever sig...only to realize that I am not clever.
Alright I've got 10,000 night minutes for my brand new spinich phone! ...unfortunately it doesnt work at night.
"I swear dude, I'm holding it for my laptop! Dude!"
How could I forget!
I live in the Santa Cruz area where Hemp is pushed upon everyone like it's the greatest thing in the world for food, clothing, oils, etc. etc., but along the way they'd like you to forget their real agenda is to legalize pot. So with that in mind, I bet some locals could find a way to power a Laptop off Hemp, or even pot to show it has more benefits and should be legalized, and so on.
Then Jay and Silent Bob could be spokesmen for this great new technology and you could pick it up outside convenience stores coast to coast.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Lets make a rule that nothing gets posted until it has a part number, price and ship date. Next it'll be Personal Computers with hard drives. Electronic cameras. Carrying your entire eight track tape collection around in a little box called an iPod.
A little reality here.
Dear mommy, I didn't send you email for a long time because the dog ate the spinach battery of my laptop...
[obligatory IBM commercial reference]
"This is the universal business adapter!"
'Does it work in Europe?'
"You need an adapter."
[/obligatory IBM commercial reference]
Beowulf cluster of plants... I believe that's called a "garden".
Except we used a potato and a beaker with salt water. The power we generated we used to light a bulb. ;)
Come and say hi. http://forum.penpals.com/index.php
Well, it grows wild in all 50 states.
Realistically, though, would legalization be such a bad thing? Sure, we'd face a shortage of Twinkies and Pink Floyd records for the first few weeks, but everyone would be mellow about it...
"You might as well get your son a ticket to hell as give him a five string banjo." -unknown minister
Hmmm, do you really think they'd let you on board the plane with a squirt-bottle full of Roundup, anyway?
Or is Roundup one of those "Sure, it kills plants down to their roots, but it's perfectly safe for humans. Here, I'll squirt it in my eyes to prove it!"
I'll have to check the label when I get home, I guess.
A post a day keeps productivity at bay.
So when laptops are powered from hemp, it's basically a transition from buying Nickel Cadmium to buying nickel bags?
I hope for your sake you know what an imaginary number is - it'll become important when you try to figure out how many koalas, toucans, and monkeys I 'didn't eat' in the 14 years I've been a vegetarian.
----- Vegans don't send SPAM.