Do you like plants?
I think there are seldom cases, when in the era of high technologies and super functional gadgets the girls are still interested in plants an everything related to them.
Well, a certain number of us still like cactuses around our PC, or still have some nice blooming trees on their sills. But I think these numbers are getting lower and lower with each new technology appears, with each new technology attracting the girls' attention and making the girls forget about their green friends.
I personally keep a few bonsai trees so I could forget for some time about the computer, the Internet and the whole world. But... enough about me. Let's speak about those, who cares about both: the plants and the technology. What could a hybrid of these two sphere of human activity and inactivity bring the world?
I guess this: a Japanese maple tree with integrated nanotechnology. Yes, today any scientist on earth could state that ANYTHING could be optimized and improved with the help of some robotics.
The scientists from Breeze have integrated into the small trunk some sensors, which would react on any changes of the environment and let you know when something goes wrong. So it can "visually sense and react through 360 degrees, allowing her to reach out to you and others whenever you are near" (noticed the "her" addressing?).
I guess this is kind of creepy... Remember the "Lord of the rings: Two Towers part"? Imagine, if the whole street you live on would have such robo-trees planted and when you walk home late, just pray that the trees wouldn't reach to you.
OK, enough with the fantasies. Back to real life... and some terminology. The wires of these sensors are made of special material called nitinol. This material has a unique ability to change its shape together with the body of the tree. The thing is that when put under some electricity, this nitinol wire would get tense, like a human muscle tissue, and would 'remember' its current state. This way the robot within the tree and the tree itself grow together (something like the soul and the body of a human being).
Don't rush to buy this gadget, because I don't really think there are such things at sale. Well, maybe on the black market.