If you’ve ever wanted to mail a potato to someone and not even put it in a box, your dreams have come true. Now you can share the starch more easily than ever. Mail A Spud will send an actual potato through the mail to a person of your choice.
They will send a Russet potato with stamps through the United States Postal Service to your mailbox. I’m sure the post office loves that. It’s only available in the United States right now and I doubt there is enough demand to sustain their business. Let me know if you use this service, because I want to know who would do this and why.
You can make your own PotatOS with ThinkGeek’s Portal 2 Science Kit, but if you can’t get your hands on an actual potato, the geeky store has another option for you. This officially licensed plush replica of GLaDOS’ tuberous incarnation lights up and plays 10 audio clips from Portal 2.
You’ll power it with three AA batteries, so it might have the energy to lie to you.
Fall to ThinkGeek and order the PotatOS plush for $20 (USD).
[via Coolest-Gadgets]
If you’ve ever been in a grade school science class, you probably know that the electrolytes in potatoes generate a small amount of electricity when connected to zinc and copper electrodes. So is it possible that with enough potatoes wired together, you could provide enough energy to power your entire house?
Well, the guys over at Movoto don’t know the scientific answer, but at least they’ve done the math for us and put together this handy calculator which figures out how many spuds it would take to power your house, based on the average current produced by a single (boiled) potato, the square footage of your home, and how long you’d need the power:
I live in a pretty big house, so I’ll need about 10,000 potatoes, at a cost of over $3000 to power my house for one day. Guess that’s not particularly cost-effective, since my current electric bill works out to be about 5 bucks a day. In fact, powering most homes with potatoes for a year would cost more money than double the value of the home itself.
On the plus side, you’d never run out of mashed potatoes.
[via Movoto]
It seems they have a Mr. Potato Head for everyone now. Many superheroes have one in their likeness and even some of the Star Trek crew, but I never thought I would see a Doctor Who version of the toy. It’s crazy, but awesome. Or is it terrible! I honestly don’t know.
Doctor Spud has eight removable parts, and as you can see he has his fez and sonic screwdriver. He can’t be without those. You can pre-order him now and he ships this August. I suppose it’s just a matter of time before we see the other Doctors in potato form too.
You can find it at Bigbadtoystore for $24.99(USD).
[via Nerd Approved]
Boeing has hauled in around 20,000 pounds of potatoes to use as human substitutes during its tests with airplane WiFi. The aircraft maker is checking that onboard wireless signals don't interfere with navigation and communication systems. Groaningly titled SPUDS (Synthetic Personnel Using Dielectric Substitution), the tubers apparently replicate how airborne signals are bounced and absorbed by real-life passengers, but without the need for Boeing to offer complimentary snacks or tiny drinks during testing.
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Source: LA Times
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