Botanicalls

Botanicalls: The Plants Have Your Number
Botanicalls opens a new channel of communication between plants and humans, in an effort to promote successful inter-species understanding.

Botanicalls allows plants to place phone calls for human help. When a plant on the Botanicalls network needs water, it can call a person and ask for exactly what it needs. When people phone the plants, the plants orient callers to their botanical characteristics. Call 212.202.8348 to hear more about each of the plants.

 


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Go to:    Background  -  How It Works   -   The Plants  -  The Brains  -   The Data  -   The Phone  -  Contact

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New Audio and Video
Botanicalls Newsreel! Botanicalls Demo Video Project Overview Animation Listen to the Scotch Moss Listen to the Fiddle Leaf Fig
The Scotch Moss when we haven't been good waterers.
 Fiddle Leaf FigThe Fiddle Leaf Fig when we have watered well.
About Botanicalls   Press

Botanicalls was developed to provide a new way for plants and people to communicate in order to develop better, longer-lasting relationships between them. Instead of using an automatic watering system or developing methods for plants to text or email people, the Botanicalls team has created the means for a more personal relationship. Each plant has a unique voice based on its botanical characteristics, and each has the ability to tell people when they are in need of assistance. They're also polite: they make sure to call and say thank you when they get a good watering.


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Photos
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Video
Watch the popular Botanicalls Newsreel or our demonstration. Watch the Botanicalls project animation to learn more about how the system works.You can also see the rocketboom or Craving NY videos to see a demonstration of the project recorded at the ITP Winter Show. More video press coverage listed on the press page.



Big thanks go out to:
Gabe Barcia-Columbo, the creator of our newest video starring Andrew Schneider. And our models Joo Youn Paek, Preston Noon and Fiona Carswell, as well as the voices of the plants: Josh London, Eric Beug, Andrew Schneider, Pollie Barden, Joo Youn Paek, Lucy Smith, Jimmy Garver, Gilad Lotan, and Preston Noon. Also, Tom Igoe, Shawn Van Every, Clay Shirky, Danny Rozin and his Fall 2006 Project Development class, Charles Day, Laurel Rimmer, Red Burns, and the entire Interactive Telecommunications Program community.

   

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