Phones That Make Your Garden Grow
“In the future, we predict plant factories will make their way to regular households as home electric appliances.”
By Ginny Mies
PCWorld
May 11, 2011
Excerpt:
The hardware–known as Plant Factories–are computer-controlled boxes that provide lighting, water temperature, air temperature, nutrients and oxygen gas to your plants. Each plant box has a blue LED light as well as red LED light, which, according to Farmbox, can be used to control the taste or the growth rate of your plant!
When your phone is hooked up to the Farmbox, the Farmbox app (which isn’t currently available in the Android App Market) will automatically document your basil’s growth data.
For example, you can record the number of times you water it, the temperature you keep it at and whether you give it any food. That data is uploaded automatically to a cloud-based service that will store that information for your amazing homegrown basil. If one of your friends comes over, tries your amazing basil, and wants to grow it in their own home, they can obtain your information from the app. Or, say you’ve always wanted to grow orchids, but have no idea how to, you can find another person’s successful orchid growing plan.
2 comments
Sounds great if you only use one head of lettuce every 3 weeks.
I am still waiting for the kit that lets you grow your own phone at home. That is to say use natural processes to relieve our dependance on electronics in stead of building more electronics around a basically organic process like growing lettuce.
Having said that, ‘wired’ information dissemination could help make more advanced ecosystems if it is put to use intelligently.
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