h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Potatoes are a possibility for circa 1805, but not digital watches.

Hmm. the sense of tough may not be enouch but...

Faberge egg?

Ah! We should have a QI about those one of these days. But this is not it.

Did he says sense of touch? He didn't didn't he? Tu tut tut.

No he diddun... sense of tough, actually.

and, shouldn't it be All that glisters?
Yah Boo

also in mind was a lump of phosphor

Well have 1 back for >lump of phosphor< DGI+1 Not quite what I had in mind but a significant advance of potatoes.

Well, stricly speaking, he said "the sense of tough".

Is the Item an Offer You Can't Refuse?

Something chemical? Or mechanical?

Neither.

Has it to do with optics (as in, if it uses lenses)? Is it silent? (After all you shouldn't wake up the staff)

Biological?

A truffle-hunting pig?

>Is it silent?<

Completely.

>Does it use lenses?<
No.
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So I have something at home which allows me to recognise potatoes in the dark

Is it something whose primary use is something else, but which can be used to recognise potatoes (or whatever it is) as well?

A glass? Is it something which had been recently invented / discovered, or something which could have been used from time immemorial?

Nope.

S'got nothing to do with potatoes, we seemed to get side-tracked with a salad theme for a few posts earlier.

I'll give you back a point for this.

>Is it something which had been recently invented / discovered, or something which could have been used from time immemorial?<


DGI+1

Oh, I was just using 'potatoes' as anything else.

Still, this is unclear to me now -- this 'most valuable thing', is it jewelry or not (say, not necessarily)?

And you didn't say which one it is -- new invention or clever use of something which has been around for ages?

It is jewellery.

I know I didn't. And for a very good reason.