Samuel Wilkinson's The Biome Smart Terrarium

An iPhone or iPad controlled flora terrarium by Samuel Wilkinson promotes 'digital downtime', finding an alternative use for smartphones by encouraging users to consider a slower life.

A terrarium of flora"works a little like a live tamagotchi" Biome climate, level of water and nutrients are controlled by means of a smartphone or iPad.

Wilkinson said, ' The idea promotes 'digital downtime' by finding an alternative use for smartphones and encourage owners to consider a slower life. Control and care for a mini real ecosystem takes patience and care, contrasting with the immediacy of messaging or tweeting that is so characteristic of the generation of smartphone.'

The smart garden has illumination of low power consumption which can replicate the sunlight and contains sensors which return to the device when connected. Biome is designed to incorporate different types of environment; tropical, desert, including herb garden and can be 'easily controlled by even the least green fingered of users.' Biome was developed for an exhibition titled Slow Tech - Designs for Digital Downtime at trend agency Protein's exhibition space last month. The exhibition was curated by Henrietta Thompson, editor-at-large at Wallpaper. Visit + samuelwilkinson.com for more information.

Destroy The Machines

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Destroy the machines that kill the forests, that disfigure the earth.
Ecotage when efforts to reason fail and no longer have worth.
Direct action is the only choice when wild lands are faced with destruction. Now is the time for counter-aggression. With every day that passes the assault on nature accelerates. For the industrial nations' excessive ways this world they devastate. Every biome on every continent in under man's attack. With everything to lose we've drawn the line to hold them back. New bridges, roads and dams pave the way to develop what wilderness remains. All must be prevented or destroyed for the wild lands to sustain. Fighting to save the animals. Their freedom is our peace. For their habitats preservation, for the violence against them to cease. Earth liberation through ecodefense. To halt the insanity of the yellow death machines advance. References: Destroy The Machines Lyrics By Earth Crisis.