If you had an email-sending spinach plant, what kind of emails would you have it send?
Researchers at MIT have been working on the truly important stuff - teaching spinach plants how to send emails.
Engineers used nanotechnology to develop plants that can emit a fluorescent signal.
When an infrared camera picks up that signal, an email is sent to researchers.
They say the technology could potentially be used to detect explosives and send off a warning signal.
It could also be used to detect pollution.
It's all part of the emerging research field known as 'plant nanobionics.'
Source: Huffpost