Click & Grow – Smart garden pot


When he was a student’s elementary school, boom Tamagotchi – simple electronic toys enable children to grow their own virtual animal, which required regular maintenance. This Japanese Tamagotchi could be the envy of the whole class, as requested to eat and clean up after themselves several times more than the pirated version. Probably, the grown-up Tamagotchi owners of the audience and the device is designed Click & Grow Estonian company of the same name.

If the product is described briefly, then it is a smart garden pot, requiring minimal presence of the gardener. Click & Grow aeroponichesky uses a method of growing plants in which the soil is not required, only need water, nutrients and sunlight.

The device consists of, in fact, the flower pot (it has a water tank, a compartment for four AA batteries, pump and sensors with the electronics) and a cartridge containing nutrients and seeds. Cartridges are replaced in each are the seeds of only one species of plants and firmware that tells the best settings for pot cultivation of the plant itself. Make compares the process of changing the cartridge with the same procedure for laser printers.

Clearly, Click & Grow does not require a host of skills and talents of a gardener: Any person who is able to pour water from the tap and properly install the batteries, after a while will enjoy the harvest of cherry tomatoes and basil leaves. To arrange a full-scale conservation with three-liter jars are unlikely to get much more interesting process itself, rather than indicators of productivity.

The company offers two starter sets with cartridges tselozii and basil (shown in picture), each valued at $ 60. Each new cartridge with these plants, as well as marigolds melkotsvetnymi (family Asteraceae), Coleus Blum, red peppers, cherry tomatoes, balsam (Impatiens walleriana), thyme, melissa, coriander or parsley costs $ 24. List of plants is gradually expanding.

By : New Gadgets


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