Oct 08
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Spider Plant Pot Bot
My new favourite designers are the Play Coalition, who first came to my attention with their selfless light fitting, The Martyr; a neat little visual pun on the idea of energy-saving.
They’ve now come up with a crazy, Tim Burton-esque solution to light-starved houseplants, The Plantbot.
Slap in your favourite fern, yucca, whatever and say goodbye to wilted foliage as the Plantbot doggedly follows sunlight around your room.
Warning: if the Day Of The Triffids gave you nightmares when you were a kid, it’s probably not for you.
But if the idea of a perambulating plantpot shakes your branches, you can see more pics at the Play Coalition website.
If nothing else it’ll freak the hell out of the cat. No more peeing in the plantpot for you Mr Moggy!
(All pics: The Play Coalition)
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Yikes! First the Kingsway Tunnel below and now the totally evil Plantbot … I can officially say goodbye to sleep forever …
This little horror is just the kind of thing you wouldn’t want to see scuttling down the tunnel towards you … in fact, it’s the kind of thing you’d take refuge from in the tunnels…
“S@!t they’ve broken through! … quick, retreat to the snooker room and arm yerself with cues, spider rests, and balls in socks….”
This creeps me out beyond the telling of it.
Exactly how far is this thing programmed to go in its dogged hunt for sunlight? How important is the process of photosynthesis to this Plantbot, and to what degree will it bulldoze the hapless victims that get in the way of that process? If I stood between it and the day’s last shards of light streaming in through the Venetians, would it recognise its place in the hierarchy of living things and sheepishly retreat to a dark corner, or would it ‘I Robot’ me?