Cyborg Houseplants for Lightless Homes

May 15th, 2008 by Andrew

I’ve always loved the idea of integrated systems for technological and biological symbiosis, and I fully intend to embrace cybernetics to aid me in my twilight years. As such, I found Ryan Wolfe’s cyborg houseplants that photosynthesize independently of sunlight through the use of embedded LEDs to be unbelievably cool.

Natural or not, I find there’s an alien beauty to them that is weirdly compelling. Though I feel like he should maybe be using more red and violet-blue LEDs for proper photosynthesis, not green…

LED-embedded houseplants

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5 Responses to “Cyborg Houseplants for Lightless Homes”

  1. Christopher Says:
    May 15th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

    Huh. So basically you’re feeding your plants with electricity instead of sunlight?

    Cool, though.

  2. Andrew Says:
    May 15th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

    …pretty much.

    I’m not going to even pretend it’s sustainable. But LEDs use trivial amounts of energy, and it’s cool. If it bothers you, you can stick a tiny solar panel on your roof, and it’ll act like a surrogate leaf-host for your indoor plants.

  3. red and blue cyborg Says:
    May 21st, 2008 at 2:48 am

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  4. jan Says:
    May 21st, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    That totally reminds me of a link Andy posted (on lovely facebook, i think). If what you’re talking about is the flora, then Theo’s creatures are sort of the the fauna.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b694exl_oZo

  5. christie Says:
    May 30th, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    Plus it just looks awesome. :)

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