Interactive networked flowers

Three students at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU have made the perpetual Mother's Day gift that keeps on giving. Networked Flowers is an acrylic sculpture made of 25 LEDs and a touch sensor controlled by a personal Internet communicator (PIC) providing basic network services. Via any web-enabled appliance (including your cellphone, natch) one can control the color and light pattern displayed by the flower. And it beats having to clean out that nasty vase water.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

very pretty, not very practical, but leds are always fun. not sure what the touch sensor has to do with the thing tho

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

By pic they mean the 8 bit microcontroller made by Microchip technolgies. The Personal Intelligent Communicator was the MagicLink line of PDAs that were made by Sony.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

every week we see something like this. first it was a cube, then it was smiley faces, and now a flower. WHO IS GOING TO USE THIS CRAP? originally it was a cute idea, very much reminiscent of a student design project--now it's both useless AND played out.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

A boom for the Funeral Industry. Instead of those stupid solar powered grave marker lights, morticians and cemetary operators will be selling WiFi controlled bursts of light in all forms of floral display.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

bets going on the 'plastic blocks with lights on' for next week?

... im thinking a... led cheese block

no, wait, thats that mac skirt thing

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

Jeremy Lutes (artist) did something similar a few years back as an art installation piece for Burning Man.

The Lily Pond was a 300-flower interactive field. While it wasn't "networked", the flowers communicated via IR to notify other flowers of their status.

Photos:
http://www.sunbrothers.com/portfolio/garden.htm?item=lilypad

A great technical description (unfortunately, only available on Google's cache):
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:YuQ6IxtEAjYJ:mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/gallery/burningman/lutes.html+%22lily+pond%22+%22burning+man%22+%22Jeremy+Lutes%22&hl=en

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

mmmmm various lit flowers...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

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