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August 9, 2012

15:05 • 9 months ago

WTF: Disney turns household plants into multi-touch input devices

Custom controllers: Using a single wire placed in the soil of a potted plant — doesn’t matter whether it’s live or artificial — Disney Research has created the Botanicus Interacticus system. Through the wire, the Botanicus software can detect where/how someone is touching the plant, strokes across the plants body, or even a person’s proximity to the plant in question. The new tech is currently being displayed at the SIGGRAPH 2012 computer graphics convention in Los Angeles. Excuse us while we try to get over how weird this video is. (ht to The Verge) source

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This is awesome. Maybe we can combine it with the screaming plant thing to communicate better with our plants?
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