{"id":94428,"date":"2019-08-04T15:22:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T22:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-next-breakthrough-in-computer-control-plant-fondling"},"modified":"2019-08-04T15:22:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T22:22:45","slug":"the-next-breakthrough-in-computer-control-plant-fondling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-next-breakthrough-in-computer-control-plant-fondling","title":{"rendered":"The Next Breakthrough in Computer Control: Plant-Fondling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EcRSKEIucjk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an intruiging technology. All it takes to set up is burying a sensor in the plant\u2019s dirt, and it works for living and non-living things alike. Given that the experience is going to be wildly different depending on the plant, it\u2019s not like this would be useful for doing anything with accuracy. But for doing weird, unique things (while fondling plants) it\u2019s perfect.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In this era of Kinect, Wii, and <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/is-this-the-best-gesture-control-system-ever-5911894\" rel=\"nofollow\">Leap<\/a>, everyone wants to capitalize on motion control. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EcRSKEIucjk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disney still likes physical peripherals<\/a>, like houseplants for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s an intruiging technology. All it takes to set up is burying a sensor in the plant\u2019s dirt, and it works for living and non-living things alike. Given that the experience is going to be wildly different depending on the plant, it\u2019s not like this would be useful for doing anything with accuracy. But for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}