Jason Silver

Saturday, September 25th, 2004

Computers Powered by Spinach!

MIT Works to Power Computers With Spinach
Fri Sep 24, 3:23 PM ET  Add Technology - AP to My Yahoo! 
By MARK PRATT, Associated Press Writer

BOSTON - "Eat your spinach," Mom used to say. "It will make your muscles grow, power your laptop and recharge your cell phone... " OK. So nobody's Mom said those last two things. But researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (news - web sites) say they have used spinach to harness a plant's ability to convert sunlight into energy for the first time, creating a device that may one day power laptops, mobile phones and more.

I want one of those! Imagine, your battery gets low, so you go out to the garden and pull some weeds!

Neat!

~Jason