(via Toast Bird Feeder)
Look at this terrible technique. Is that what you call pointing your toes?
Please don’t judge me for her gracelessness.
The Hanging Garden: Detecting moisture levels with sensors and LED lights
The hanging garden, a collaboration between Clorofilas and Aer Studio, uses basic technological components to enable plants to communicate by placing sensors in their soil to detect moisture levels. The design studios, respectively based in Manchester and Barcelona, linked the sensors to LED lights that illuminate when moisture levels get too low and the plants need watering. The heart of the project, the open-source Arduino platform, takes the information received by the sensors and relays it to the corresponding LED light. This communication apparatus between plant and human life removes a variable of uncertainty when it comes to providing a plant with the right amount of water at the appropriate time.
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Orangutans, With iPads
The BBC writes of an experiment at the Milwaukee zoo where orangutans are given access to iPads so that they use basic drawing apps, and kick back and watch some primate video.
The next goal is to wire the zoo and have the orangutans video chat with others elsewhere.
Via the BBC:
“Orangutans love looking at each other,” said [conservationist Richard] Zimmerman, adding that one of the apes, 31-year-old MJ, is a fan of David Attenborough programmes.
“The orangutans loved seeing videos of themselves - so there is a little vanity going on - and they like seeing videos of the orangutans who are in the other end of the enclosure.
“So if we incorporate cameras, they can watch each other.”
Other centres, zoos and sanctuaries are said to want to get involved “immediately” and are just waiting for more devices to become available.
“We’ve been limited to Milwaukee because we haven’t been able to get enough iPads,” Mr Zimmerman said.
“We’ve been waiting for the iPad 3 to come out to make the iPad 1 really obsolete, so we can pick up a few.
Image: An orangutan, with an iPad, via ExtremeTech](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx1ad6yt7e1qedj2ho1_1280.jpg)
Orangutans, With iPads
The BBC writes of an experiment at the Milwaukee zoo where orangutans are given access to iPads so that they use basic drawing apps, and kick back and watch some primate video.
The next goal is to wire the zoo and have the orangutans video chat with others elsewhere.
Via the BBC:
“Orangutans love looking at each other,” said [conservationist Richard] Zimmerman, adding that one of the apes, 31-year-old MJ, is a fan of David Attenborough programmes.
“The orangutans loved seeing videos of themselves - so there is a little vanity going on - and they like seeing videos of the orangutans who are in the other end of the enclosure.
“So if we incorporate cameras, they can watch each other.”
Other centres, zoos and sanctuaries are said to want to get involved “immediately” and are just waiting for more devices to become available.
“We’ve been limited to Milwaukee because we haven’t been able to get enough iPads,” Mr Zimmerman said.
“We’ve been waiting for the iPad 3 to come out to make the iPad 1 really obsolete, so we can pick up a few.
Image: An orangutan, with an iPad, via ExtremeTech
