It was some time ago that I felt Inspired to build a rudimentary indoor gardening system of my own. My inspiration came after discovering the ways in which over 2 billion people living in cities all across the world are beginning to bring gardens into their homes, on their roofs, and more. Much of my time is spent working with technology and quite frequently staring at a computer far longer than one would hope to. I wanted a way to bring a bit of the outside world into my home as well as re-kindle my relationship with gardening and growing my own food.
I have a deep fascination with the the idea of a healthy and balanced style of life. Where the physical world, and nature are not excluded from what we do simply by the technology that can occasionally void our need to interact with it. From this idea came the novel concept of merging two worlds and developing a system which does exactly what.
In comes SproutsIO, a product and MIT Media Lab spinoff company with the goal of providing consumers an intelligent microgarden that makes it easy to cultivate indoors, year-round, soil-free through an automated and quantifiable growing process.
SproutsIO integrates the physical growing device with the digital SproutsIOGrow software services for a growing experience that is intuitive, engaging, and fun.
With the SproutsIoGrow app, one can tend to their garden on a mobile device. Dynamic dashboard reports and time-lapse camera feed makes remote monitoring easy and engaging. Through rigorous customer research and user insight, we defined important features that empower users to…
Control all of your SproutsIOs from one mobile device
Monitor progress with real-time sensor reports and onboard camera feed
Enjoy recipes and useful content tailored to what you’re growing
Cultivate Personal Produce™ by dialing in the flavor you prefer
To learn more about SproutsIO click here
To learn about biomimicry and adopting features from nature into design check out my page on Biomimicry