Tag: PLANTS

Share Tragic news from Facebook, yesterday: a plant has died. The flora, named 'Meet Eater,' was originally planted in Australia by Queensland University student Bashkim Isai, who wanted to find out whether or not random online strangers would care enough about a plant to collectively "water" it. To test his theory, Isaid created a Facebook page for his Eater; whenever someone became a fan of the ...

Michael Jackson is dead. And his family, apparently, wants to keep it that way -- even in the world of iPhone games. According to MTV, Jackson estate lawyers recently forced gaming company PopCap to change a character in one of its iPhone apps, 'Plants vs. Zombies,' because said character bore a striking resemblance to the King of Pop. From now on, the Dancing Zombie character will no longer be ...

Thanks to a scientific breakthrough, you can now grow plants without physically watering them. No, we're not talking about flood irrigation. Or sprinklers. Or hydroponic systems. Okay, so maybe "breakthrough" isn't the right word, here. "Dorky," though, is the perfect term for Click & Grow, the electronic flowerpot that automatically hydrates plants with its aeroponic system -- doing, in ...

Designer David Bowen has created some amazing mechanical sculptures that react to the growth of plants. Using hydroponically grown greenery as its input, the Growth Rendering Device scans the plant's shape ever 24 hours and then prints a rasterized inkjet rendering of the growth. The device then unfurls four inches of paper to make room for the next day's drawing. As an autonomous art experiment, ...

When we were kids, we couldn't wait for the day the robots would take over. At best, the world would be filled with R2D2s and C3POs -- fun-loving, intelligent, friendly electro-critters. At worst, we'd be surrounded by 'Terminator'-style droids -- bloodthirsty, terrifying, ruthless, and totally awesome. Sadly, it's become abundantly clear that we're closer to getting something like Rainbow ...

For those of you looking to prove just how green your thumb really is, have a gander at the Timelapse Garden Video Camera. Offered up at the always intriguing Hammacher Schlemmer, this weatherproof garden tool engages in the tedious task of taking snapshots of your flora in customizable intervals and then weaving them together into a single 1,280 x 1,024 AVI video. The lens can focus as close as ...

Those of us with not blessed with a green thumb (some of us at Switched could kill a cactus) wish plants would tell you us they needed and when. A company called Botanicalls has cooked up an admittedly complicated DIY (Do It Yourself) project that lets your plants to send messages via the micro-blogging service Twitter to let you know when it needs to be watered. It even thanks you for feeding ...