This Twittering Tree Can Tell You How it Feels [VIDEO]



It may not be the first plant to master Twitter, but Connected Tree offers a unique motion-sensing interactivity with the people around it. It picks up changes in the electromagnetic field nearby as people approach or move away, and an attached analysis engine translates the tree's "reactions" and "moods" into speech, tweets and SMS. A local visual engine also provides lights and sounds based on people's presence and movement.

Like other non-human tweeters, Ericsson's Connected Tree represents a vision of a developing "Internet of Things," in which objects can interact in meaningful ways with human beings via technology.

Would you want to befriend a tweeting tree? Are there other kinds of objects you'd like to be able to "communicate" with?

[via Social Times]