Botanicus Interacticus-- Disney Technology

pennphinfan · Aug 15, 2012

This is pretty cool stuff that disney is working on. Treating a plant as an electrical circuit allows you to manipulate a computer program by touching the plant!

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680369/disney-s-interactive-plants-aren-t-just-magic-they-re-practical-magic

[video=youtube;EcRSKEIucjk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcRSKEIucjk[/video]

“I thought it should be as far away from a man-made object as possible,” says Disney Senior Research Scientist Ivan Poupyrev about the decision to turn real plants into sensors. “They expect that. … I thought a plant would be more surprising. It was, as a matter of fact.”

Most touch technology is binary. It can determine whether or not you’re touching something. Touche, on the other hand, distinguishes between a one-finger touch, a pinch, a circle gesture, and a grasp.

An early demo video offers some example products that could be powered by Touche: a music player controlled only through touch gestures on your own body such as clasping your hands, a smart doorknob that sets a status like “do not disturb” depending on how it is grasped, or a sofa that turns on the television when someone sits down.
Poupyrev also imagines practical applications for interactive plants beyond entertainment: a plant clock, a music-making garden, or even a plant alarm system that sets off when someone crosses a certain stretch of the yard.
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Yard alarm? YES PLEASE

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