Nightly News   |  December 20, 2012

Testing Wi-Fi with a sack of potatoes

Boeing says it has been using potatoes, instead of humans, to test onboard Wi-Fi signal quality throughout the airplane cabin. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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>>> to the air now. if you think we passengers are sometimes regarded by the airlines as a sack of potatoes, here's your proof. boeing says it uses sacks of potatoes instead of humans when testing on-board wi-fi. using potatoes means they don't have to impose on humans. they say potatoes by the sack, mimic the bulk of actual bodies where wireless signal transmissions are concerned.