Concept computer is the homogeneous fusion of technology and Mother Nature

Secondary Growth

Mixing the electronic world with the biological one isn’t something that’s terribly new. The artificial pacemaker, for example, is a product of such a fusion. And here we have secondary growth, a concept computer designed by Omer Deutsch, which somehow seems like a more homogeneous fusion of technology and Mother Nature. It does not remind you of the relationship between Stephen Hawking and his chair.

There isn’t much information on this computer as of now; it is after all only a concept today. But it is said to be a “home” for plants, which is capable of assisting the plant with its daily needs. How well will it assist and how crucial is such an assistance to a plant? Such questions have no answers right now. Going by the pictures put up by Yankodesign, a leading web-magazine dedicated to design, it seems to look a lot neater than one might expect. One might expect it to look like a big electronic setup including blinking LED bulbs and other little electronic circuits and batteries, or maybe like a road accident victim on life support, but this computer actually looks cool. The computer itself, i.e., the electronic half of this marriage, looks almost like an iPod for a plant. You can imagine somebody hanging this up in the lobby of your office building as soon as you look at it for the first time. It’s pretty artistically modern that way.

Secondary Growth

Will such an invention be helpful to society or even the environment in any way? Will it help make the world greener by helping plants live longer, or will it actually make it less green by using electricity for something that never really required electricity before. Such questions, again, have no answers right now. How can we say until this concept is actually designed and mass produced? Forty or fifty years ago, people would not have thought of a “portable electronic multimedia pad” as a useful or handy accessory. But things are a lot different today, aren’t they? We live in a world today where every problem has an electronic solution. When was the last time you saw a guy using a map (an actual paper map)? We live in a world today where Facebook, a website after all, is a lot closer to real life than one would’ve ever imagined a website to be. And so, in such a world, why not have an electronic gadget that “goes back to the roots?”

Via: Yankodesign

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