Matsushita Electric Works busts out remote-controlled garden

Even if you've got the greenest thumb in your neighborhood, sometimes exerting all that effort to hydrate your flora just doesn't seem worthwhile. Presumably satisfying the couch dweller in us all, Matsushita Electric Works has remarkably created yet another invention that keeps us firmly planted on that oh-so-comfortable couch, all while giving the utmost attention to those needy azaleas. The remote-controlled Aiterrarium is an indoor gardening system in which the florescent lighting, temperature, humidity, and food / water supply is all controlled via the internet; with just a few clicks, you can make critical tweaks to the environment of your indoor greenhouse, and thanks to an "optional camera system," you don't even have to be home to watch your plant life blossom (or perish). While these are being primarily aimed at universities and agricultural research centers, there's just two things stopping you from snapping up your own -- scrounging up the ¥600,000 ($5,017) required to purchase one, and finding the motivation to actually dial up Matsushita.

[Via Far East Gizmos]

[Fuzz @ Oct 13th 2006 12:25PM]

I can think of exactly one good use for this. :)

[Chocolate Starfish @ Oct 13th 2006 12:33PM]

Hey Fuzz,

Let me know how sending video over the internet of your garden growing works out for ya.

[Ali @ Oct 13th 2006 12:45PM]

If you can program a daily routine into this thing it would be great.

[Gadget Extremest @ Oct 13th 2006 1:01PM]

Considering that in Japan, a single cantaloupe can cost more than $25 (USD); so the $5,000+ spent on this device could easily pay for it's self in just a few years.

[Mark @ Oct 13th 2006 1:23PM]

Just another tool for the robot overlords...

[Chris @ Oct 13th 2006 1:46PM]

Could this thing raise my children?

[blurry @ Oct 13th 2006 2:13PM]

You know, this should be marketed to potheads. Cause they're gonna forget to water the plans almost inevitably!

[Ben Daly @ Oct 13th 2006 7:31PM]

wait first of all Fu to blurry, and second of all that'd be so nice for canadian marijuana cash-croppers...

[Manuel @ Oct 13th 2006 7:17PM]

Very Back To The Future II..

[blurry @ Oct 14th 2006 1:53AM]

Now, now, Mr. Daly. I was just trying to be funny and avoid self-incrimination as gingerly as possible. What were we talking about again? Oh yeah! Water.

i'm thirsty for some reason...