TomTato tumbuhan, tumbuh kedua-duanya tomato & kentang

TomTato plant grows both tomatoes and potatoes

by SitiWanMahani | Gizmag

Kami telah melihat beberapa inovasi yang membolehkan untuk berkebun di dalam ruang kecil, termasuk raksasa yang aneh seperti roda, tikar yang menunjukkan anda di mana untuk menanam benih khas disediakan, dan sistem yang membolehkan anda berkembang sayur-sayuran menegak disusun dalam di tingkap anda. TomTato Walau bagaimanapun, adalah dalam liga yang tersendiri - ia adalah sebuah kilang tunggal yang menghasilkan kedua-dua tomato dan kentang pada masa yang sama.

We've seen a number of innovations that allow for gardening in small spaces, including a ferris wheel-like contraption, a mat that shows you where to plant specially-prepared seeds, and a system that lets you grow vertically-stacked veggies in your window. The TomTato, however, is in a league of its own - it's a single plant that produces both tomatoes and potatoes at the same time.

Dicipta oleh Syarikat hortikultur Thompson UK dan Morgan, TomTato tidak adalah hasil daripada kejuruteraan genetik. Ia adalah “hanya” atas sebuah kilang tomato ceri dan bahagian bawah tumbuhan kentang putih, yang telah ditambah bersama-sama pada batangnya.

Created by UK horticulture company Thompson and Morgan, the TomTato is not the result of genetic engineering. It's "simply" the top of a cherry tomato plant and the bottom of a white potato plant, that have been grafted together at the stem.

Walaupun ia mungkin untuk mewujudkan kacukan itu untuk masa yang lama, rasa tomato menyebabkan nampaknya telah meninggalkan banyak yang diinginkan. Menurut syarikat itu, bagaimanapun, buah-buahan yang TomTato mempunyai tahap yang Brix (kandungan gula) yang lebih tinggi daripada tomato pasar raya besar, bersama-sama dengan “hanya tahap hak keasidan yang ada hanya tomato lazat.” Kentang dikatakan baik untuk direbus, mashing atau panggang.

While it's been possible to create such hybrids for a long time, the taste of the resulting tomatoes has apparently left much to be desired. According to the company, however, the TomTato's fruits have a Brix (sugar content) level higher than that of most supermarket tomatoes, along with "just the right level of acidity that only the tastiest tomatoes have." The potatoes are said to be fine for boiling, mashing or roasting.

TomTato dibeli sebagai tumbuhan berkembang (dan bukannya dalam bentuk benih), dan berlangsung selama satu musim yang semakin meningkat. Satu tumbuhan dilaporkan boleh menghasilkan sehingga 500 tomato dan 2 kg (4.4 lb) kentang. Maklumat lanjut boleh didapati di dalam video di bahagian bawah halaman.

The TomTato is purchased as a grown plant (as opposed to in seed form), and lasts for one growing season. One plant can reportedly produce up to 500 tomatoes and 2 kg (4.4 lb) of potatoes. More information is available in the video at the bottom of the page.

Thompson dan Morgan menyatakan bahawa ini merupakan kali pertama yang ditambah tomato/kentang hibrid telah dihasilkan secara komersial. Menurut laporan BBC, bagaimanapun, satu lagi kilang itu telah hanya boleh didapati di New Zealand minggu ini. Ia dibuat oleh edibles Incredible, dan dikenali sebagai Kentang Tom (Potato Tom).

Thompson and Morgan states that this marks the first time that grafted tomato/potato hybrids have been produced commercially. According to a BBC report, however, another such plant has just become available in New Zealand this week. It's made by Incredible Edibles, and is known as the Potato Tom.

Jika anda berminat untuk mendapatkan TomTato anda sendiri, dan anda tinggal di UK, anda boleh menempah satu sekarang untuk £ 14,99 (US $ 24). Penghantaran dijadualkan pada akhir bulan Mei depan.

If you're interested in getting a TomTato of your own, and you live in the UK, you can order one now for £14.99 (US$24). Delivery is scheduled for the end of next May.

Article Source: Thompson and Morgan via BBC

Images source: Thompson and Morgan

(Post Source: Gizmag. Edited. Some images added)

POLAR: The Wonder MAGNETIC pen . . .

This Amazing Magnetic Pen Will take Hours from Your Life 

by SitiWanMahani | Wired

Think about how many cumulative hours you’ve wasted with pens in your lifetime. You’ve spun them; you’ve drummed them; you’ve unscrewed them and launched their tops off like little rockets. The pen’s unimpeachable status as a tool needed to get things done lets it slide undetected into even the most oppressive fun vacuums - places like lecture halls and meeting rooms - whereupon it assumes its most vital function of giving you something to fiddle with. And when it comes to fiddling, this magnetic pen is a quantum leap beyond your standard plastic Bic.

Dreamed up by Canadian designer Andrew Gardner, it's made of 12 neodymium magnets.

Polar, as the wonder pen is called, is a writing implement made of 12 neodymium magnets. But according to Andrew Gardner, the man behind the design, distraction was never the goal. “It wasn’t intended to be something to fiddle with,” he says. “I don’t like calling it a toy.” Indeed, the unique design does offer some functional benefits. It allows for a stylus tip to be hidden in the body itself, for one thing. It also lets the owner customize the implement to his or her desired size. The pen, which can be pre-ordered for about US$40, was intended to be a “modular platform where you can add new tips and new cartridges,” Gardner explains. It’s “a really organic platform for creativity.”

It offers some functional benefits, like the ability to adjust its size and to conceal a stylus tip for a touchscreen.

But you have to imagine that the 8,000-some backers who have already pledged over a half a million dollars to the project saw something else when they looked at Polar. They had to have watched the clip showing all the things it can do - seeing all the mesmerizing magnetic structures it can transform into - and come to the obvious conclusion: This thing the Sistine Chapel of time wasting.

But it also lets the pen do some neat tricks.

Gardner, who works at Indiedesign in Waterloo, Ontario, has been fascinated with magnets since a young age. He’s been an avid disassembler of pens for just as long. When those two passions converged earlier this year, he knew he was onto something right away. “You’d think it was more of a progression, but it wasn’t actually,” he says. 

He found it to be an elegant solution even before he figured out all of its, erm, extracurricular potential; the magnets hold everything together, so it requires no screws and no glue. “When I first came up with the design,” Gardner explains, “I actually did a lot of looking around, like, ‘how has nobody ever done something like this. This has to be done by somebody, so I better go do it.”

“It wasn't intended to be something to fiddle with,” Gardner says. “I don't like calling it a toy.”

Polar’s fantastic crowd-funded success has come with its drawbacks. There are already a slew of magnet-pen copycats rushing to market, and some have tried to peg Polar as a health hazard, throwing it in with other controversial small magnet products like BuckyBalls, whose fun was matched only by their swallowability.

And then, of course, there’s the lingering concern that always comes with carrying a stack of magnets in your pocket: that you run the risk of messing up some other thing, either wiping the magnetic data off your credit card or somehow turning your smartphone into an expensive paper weight. Gardner says he has been carrying one around himself, though, and has no ill effects to report with his electronics or his credit cards.

He has, however, found that Polar is strong enough to wipe flimsier transportation cards clean, a fact that’s left him trapped behind the turnstile on more than one occasion. Still, that’s a small price to pay, especially considering that he had the perfect thing to keep him busy until he managed to flag down some help.

Still, the time wasting potential is hard to deny.

POLAR - in 60 seconds, a pen made out of magnets. from Polar Pen on Vimeo

(Source: Wired Edited. Video 2 added).