Organic Circuits That Could Grow and Die Like Plants
These laser-etched wooden “chips” actually work. Labrune’s work has intriguing connections to the long-held dream of an “internet of things”: a world in which physical objects are all connected in a smart digital network, just like hypertext links or Google documents. The usual vision for such objects is some variation on RFID-networked kitchen appliances. But what if the “smart things” were integrated more naturally – like in a botanical garden, for instance? (via Organic Circuits That Could Grow and Die Like Plants | Co.Design)