Potatoes and tomatoes cannot be cross-bred. However, it is possible to graft the shoot of a tomato to the rootstock of the potato plant. The grafted resulting plant can successfully produce both potatoes and tomatoes. The draw for grafting the two plants is for space purposes. It saves space and helps a tomato plant grow where it might not normally be able to. Grafting the two together can affect the flavor outcome of both vegetables.

The easiest way to graft the two plants together is by finding potatoes and tomatoes with very like-sized stem and root. The potato stem should be cut into a “V” and then cut the tomato stem to look like a wedge that fits the “V” you already cut. Slide the two pieces together and wrap with grafting tape and voila! You are on your way to a totato or a pomato plant.

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If you were a video game aficionado in the 1980s, you probably remember the game Duck Hunt. If you played this game, you used what was technically called the “Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Zapper” but was actually a small plastic gun that you aimed at the television.

Today, we have Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft Kinect, which are far more sophisticated than the Zapper, but still, just how did this little gun work? The Zapper had a photodiode in the barrel that detected light.

When you shot at the television (or rather at the ducks on the screen), the NES blacked out the screen causing the photodiode to start detecting.

Then the computer flashed a solid white block around the targets you were shooting at. The Zapper detects the change in light and tells the computer that it is pointed at a lit target. Basically, you just hit a target. Go you!

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