This Home Gardening Assistive Device Sticks Into Your Plant’s Soil To Keep It Healthy! - Yanko Design

Activities similar home gardening take held the attention of millennials and older generations alike for years, but with quarantine, they've risen exponentially in popularity. Taking care of houseplants non only amplifies the mood and intimacy of your domicile but as well fills up your space in a way that other interior design options cannot replicate. Houseplants are so popular, sales are supposed to increase to $49.3 billion past 2023. Speaking to this, mostly thanks to social media, a quarter of that spending is attributed to houseplant owners between the ages of 18 and 34. Botanist, a gardening assistive device, was designed to make taking care of a plant more than manageable for anybody. Sejin Park, based out of Seoul, designed Botanist considering he saw the millennial generation's dearest for houseplant culture and their preferred mode of communication: technology.

Millennials seem to take some rut from older generations for how often we're on our phones and how disconnected from the world we are because of it. In order to make some sense of that tension, Park bridged a connection between the natural and mobile worlds. Botanist consists of three divided parts: touchscreen, connector, and the probe stick. The probe stick scans and analyzes your houseplant'due south soil in order to communicate what the plant might need, which is displayed on Botanist's screen. Through a speaker and touchscreen, the user is informed of the houseplants' soil, pH, light, temperature, and humidity levels on easy-to-read, round, gauges. The touchscreen then provides boosted information, relaying how the user can maintain the plant's health levels or cater to them. The connecter is what allows the data gathered from the probe stick to travel to the touchscreen. On its touchscreen, Botanist also lets users file their houseplants then that they're easy to find and accept care of.

The device pairs with your telephone so that you can receive the latest data from your houseplant no thing how far from home you may be. Taking inspiration from devices similar speakers, reusable water bottles, and other sustainable products, Park was certain to design this assistive device and then that its purpose to maintain wellness and plant life reflected not only how its materials were sourced, but likewise and then that its construction and look fit in amidst your houseplants. Your plants will practically take care of themselves.

Designer: Sejin Park