Tomatoes

Miniature LED Lamp Powered By Fruit (Or Is It Vegetable?)

6:14AM April 18, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

The tastiest design at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair isn’t furniture at all – it’s this tiny, tomato-powered LED lamp by Israeli group d-VISION. You say tomato, I say incisive commentary on energy production and consumer culture. [MocoLoco]and Inhabitat]


Robots Care for Plants (By Peeing on Them)

1:00PM March 21, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

Call it what you want, but the MIT-built horticultural robots roll around, lowering a tube and spraying right into dirt around the plants’ stems. I’m snickering, but the project itself is pretty cool.

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