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Robotic plant finds the sun, stays alive despite your neglect
If your poor, mistreated plant had legs, it would walk itself in front of the sun and out from the dank corner that it sits, slowly drying up and dying. Unfortunately for your plant, evolution hasn't decided that legs are a priority for plants. Fortunately for it, however, we live in the age of robots, so you can just go ahead and finish the job that evolution started.
There's not a lot of info on this plant-bot, but one can only assume that it's designed to follow the sun around a room and, perhaps in a later model, water itself as well. It'll free us lazy, shiftless types of the responsibility of plant ownership, allowing plants to keep themselves alive without us having to worry about periodic watering and moving. The future is now!
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By Tony at 6:20 PM ON 10/20/08
Oh, I'm sure the house cat/dog will just love it the first time the table comes walking toward them LOL
By Jijinka at 3:49 AM ON 10/21/08
a palm tree that walk toward sunlight? nature already did it
Socratea exorrhiza, the Walking Palm, is a palm native to rainforests in tropical Central and South America. Its common name arises from the fact that the tree's stilt roots enable it to slowly shift position, up to 1 metre a year to get more sunlight.
This tree grows to 12 metres in height. Its trunk is used in the construction of houses and other structures. It is usually split length-wise before it is used, but it can also be hollowed out and used as a tube.
The inner part of the stilt roots is used as a male aphrodisiac.
By Hey Its Me at 1:13 PM ON 10/23/08
Its true that there is such thing as a walking palm, but how many people have them in their houses? And a meter per year is a bit slow when the sunlight coming through a window is constantly moving. And who says it has to be a palm tree in the planter?
My pets would LOVE this... *sarcasm*
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