Scientists Have Created Spinach That Can Send Emails. Here's How It Could Fight the Climate Crisis.
The tech could be used to detect abnormalities in soil that could help fight climate change.
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Ever wondered what your salad is thinking at lunch time? Do you often wish it could communicate with you via the digital convenience of email? What do you mean, no?
Regardless of your personal thoughts on talking vegetables, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have engineered spinach plants that can detect explosive material in soil and relay information back via email.
Okay, so technically it’s not the spinach itself that sends messages. You won’t be seeing individual plants rocking their own Hotmail account and smashing out passive aggressive reminders to colleagues on a keyboard.