Scientists create spinach that can send emails

Unexplained Myteriess ^ | 02/03/2021

[BenLurkin]

The unorthodox experiment concerns a relatively niche area of technology research known as plant nanobionics which combines nanotechnology with plant biology to achieve new things.

The study, which was carried out by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), had initially focused on finding a way to use plants to detect explosives, but later evolved into using them to learn about the environment and to relay that information back to a mobile phone.

Obviously we're not talking about having spinach plants type out an email in the conventional sense - instead the fusion of biology and nanotechnology has enabled sensory data from the spinach to be communicated in a way that can be picked up and analyzed by human scientists

[a fool in paradise]

“STOP EATING MY FAMILY!”

[Alas Babylon!]

Quick! Get Popeye and Olive Oil an email address!

[Signalman]

I wonder how much these scientists get paid to come up with such earth-shaking stuff as this.

[gimme1ibertee]

And, if that doesn’t work, you can always get a treadmill shrimp to run it right over to you...

[mewzilla]

So what?

Deep State’s got a POTATUS sitting in the Oval Office.

[gimme1ibertee]

Quick! Get Popeye and Olive Oil an email address!

Oliveoyl@wattadish.com and iyamwhatiyam@ah-gug-gug-gug-gug.com

[ClearCase_guy]

Finally some good news!

[17th Miss Regt]

I never understood that. He relied on spinach for strength but always talked about yams.

[z3n]

Absurdly misleading headline.

The spinach becomes a biological equivalent to a thermostat or sensor, and other technology is interpreting and relaying the data/telemetry.

[BenLurkin]

Yes, I was disappointed too. Thought for sure they sprouted fingers and started typing.

[nevergore]

Let me know when they teach broccoli to text.....

[bramps]

I knows beans are capable of clearing out an entire room.

[dfwgator]

“How about some more beans, Mr. Taggart?”

[CIB-173RDABN]

Soon the Democrats will register plants to vote (and they will all vote Democrats, even the ones that find themselves on the dinner menu) /h (”h” is for humor)

[Noumenon]

Unremarkable. We have a recently installed potted plant in the Oval Office doing the same thing.

[windsorknot]

Spinach says, “Trust the plan.”

[tet68]

Ask any vegetable...and the chances are good...
that the vegetable will respond to you....

[Boogieman]

But we already have vegetables that can send emails. They’re called “tumblr feminists”.

[EinNYC]

Of course, the spinach is using a CELL phone...