Plants and humans finally talk
Botanicalls is a project of a team of four students at the ITP program at NYU.
Background notes :
The Botanicalls project is fundamentally about communication between plants and people. We are empowering both by inventing new avenues of interaction. Plants that might otherwise be neglected are given the ability to call people and request assistance. People who are unsure of their ability to effectively care for growing things are given visual and aural clues.
When a plant on the botanicalls network needs a little water, it can call a human and ask for exactly what it needs.
Brilliant.
On ot the stated goals is to keep the plants alive by translating the communication protocols of the plants (leaf habit, color of foliage, droop, etc) to more common human communication protocols (email, voice phone calls, digital visualizations, etc).
Brilliant.
Something not meant to be communicating is doing just that. I wonder, how many systems we can setup on top of Botanicalls idea ?
Related:
Botanicalls video
Botanicalls photos
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