Potatoes Helping WiFi on Airplanes?
photo by ENgadget.com
If you were worried about having your job outsourced, here is something that will really surprise you. Boeing aircraft is now having potatoes helping wifi testing on their planes.
Yes, this is not a misprint … potatoes helping wifi!
It turns out that the term “couch potatoes” has some merit because potatoes react to radio signals almost exactly like humans. It has to do with how the wave signals are reflected and absorbed. Wifi is difficult to get just right here on earth and at high altitudes it is even harder, so a lot of testing and adjustments are required.
It is really quite ingenious to do potatoes helping wifi testing because they will not care if the plane leaves late, nor will they complain about the lack of leg room on the plane.
The plane can sit on the tarmac for days and the potatoes won’t care and they won’t ask for overtime pay or report grievances to the potato union.
There is no need for flight attendants giving the oxygen mask demo, or chiding the passengers to turn off their devices and put on their seat belts. Also the potatoes won’t get up and walk around when the seat belt sign is on. The potatoes helping wifi testing will also not complain about the price of the tickets and won’t ask for any upgrades either.
It might be just a matter of time before potatoes put more people out of work and add to the unemployment numbers. Imagine a workforce that doesn’t talk back and won’t ask for any fringe benefits … we may need to take this threat to our jobs seriously!
The funniest part of the whole potatoes helping wifi testing is that the project is named SPUDS (Synthetic Personnel Using Dielectric Substitution). Maybe this is the potatoes’ revenge on us for inventing French Fries … uh, oh.
