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Products => Crowd Funded Projects => Topic started by: Cthulhoid on January 13, 2020, 04:55:00 am

Title: The World's First Smart Potato!
Post by: Cthulhoid on January 13, 2020, 04:55:00 am
Had a booth at CES and everything. I may have to buy some of the stickers.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-world-s-first-smart-potato-smartpotato#/ (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-world-s-first-smart-potato-smartpotato#/)

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Title: Re: The World's First Smart Potato!
Post by: I wanted a rude username on January 13, 2020, 05:13:38 am
Far more likely to succeed than the average crowdsourced project that gets posted here.  ;D
Title: Re: The World's First Smart Potato!
Post by: Berni on January 13, 2020, 07:14:01 am
Hah good one.

But how did they get a booth at CES? Doesn't that cost an absurd amount of money?
Title: Re: The World's First Smart Potato!
Post by: richnormand on January 13, 2020, 09:56:38 pm
Reminds me of "Portal 2"....
Title: Re: The World's First Smart Potato!
Post by: JamesPatterson on January 14, 2020, 08:03:58 am
As I know of, he was just trying to prove a point, how ridiculous some projects these days are. It worked well in the end though, yes, it's ridiculous to make a 'smart potato', but to some, so are other smart objects and devices that don't actually make any difference but are rather smart for the sake of it.
Title: Re: The World's First Smart Potato!
Post by: ebastler on January 18, 2020, 04:16:37 pm
Gotta love the campaign's stretch goals too:

$60,000 - The smart potato will be able to produce weather forecasts
$90,000 - The smart potato will have its own blockchain
$120,000 - The potatoes will be able to communicate with each other over a meshed-potatoes network

 ;D
Title: Re: The World's First Smart Potato!
Post by: Bud on January 18, 2020, 04:44:12 pm
$200,000 - The potatoes send the subscribed users a Facebook alert when arrive from the farm to the McDonalds kitchen
Title: Re: The World's First Smart Potato!
Post by: Yansi on January 18, 2020, 04:50:51 pm
Nope. Here's yo smartest potato!

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Title: Re: The World's First Smart Potato!
Post by: SiliconWizard on January 19, 2020, 01:10:23 am
That's fun. I bet potatoes may be smarter than some though... :-DD