The Philips RFID-enabled Herbarium

One of Philips's more peripheral health-technology projects that managed to slip past undetected is their Herbarium, an RFID-enabled herb greenhouse. The Herbarium detects which herb you've planted in its tagged pots in order to produce ideal growing conditions, so you can easily and conveniently harvest your own fresh parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme without those annoying trips to Scarborough Fair (or Whole Foods).

[Via Inhabitat]

[Someone @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

This is a great gadget... This could be very helpful in growing another certain herb that wasn't listed in the post :) ...

[K-Balls @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

Philips is a Dutch company, right? What else could you possibly grow in the Netherlands to take advantage of this kind of technology?

[Gabe @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

lol 1 & 2: I like the real question on everyone's mind. :-p I was wondering, too...

[Dan @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

Wow that is one smart veggie

[just this guy @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

Quickly!

To the Herbarium!

[Zanna @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

Great gadget? :D What it does? Does it humidifies the air, waters the plants, gives them manure or muck or compost? And moreover, does it work only for sage, basil and thyme or with every kind of plant? Maybe it has a programmable-environment for each kind of plant or a C++ for plants... :P

[David @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

Nice Idea on the surface but very dangerous technology.
It's very irresponsible to be promoting RFID before the privacy issues with RFID have been resolved. This just gets the public used to a technology that can be used to track or access your personal data with out your knowledge.

[buttbutt @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

No pot is mentioned in the article. Seems a lot lower powered that the traditional ones.

[(another) Jon @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

#7

Heaven forbid the govt. knows that I like basil in my pasta sauce....

[Chipi @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

Apparently they DO sell it different in Holland...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chipi/61033556/

[fistpittingnork @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

9. Posted Nov 7, 2005, 1:40 PM ET by (another) Jon
#7

Heaven forbid the govt. knows that I like basil in my pasta sauce....


Think of the children you sick bastard!

[BD @ Dec 19th 2005 12:55AM]

What about us who care for a different herb in our pasta sauce, coffee, butter, brownies, pipes, bongs and vaporizers?

Mmm ... Herbarium.