Household plants as interface? Sure, why not.
Ok – so this falls well and truly in the ‘solution in search of a problem’ category of concepts, but is, nonetheless, kind of cool.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcRSKEIucjk&w=560&h=315]
It is interesting how machine learning is becoming more and more prevalent as an enabling technology for new interfaces. I guess we are, by nature, just too messy in our communications for simple categorical representation. It will be interesting to see where the line between our native comms and the digital interpretation moves to.