Hi everyone! I am a final year Industrial Design student at Brunel University, currently undertaking a brief looking at possible products for the National Geographic in 2030 with the idea of 'Make the reader the explorer'. This has lead me to begin to develop a concept 'PlantSpotting'. A device that can be kept on your person to identify plants/their health etc and communicates with a smart device with the aim of encouraging people to reengage with flora, perhaps through gamification, collection etc. For more information such as visualisation, research overviews and user scenarios please see the attached files or view project over at: http://lukefirth.co.uk/plantspotting/ To you, if something like this existed how would you like to use it? What would you like it to do or tell you? And how best do you think with technology can we get the general public to get more actively involved in caring and engaging with plants? Any comments or feedback is greatly appreciated, you guys input could directly effect the direction of this project. Thanks!
As a backup to the using the DNA data, sight recognition via Google Glass is something else I expect to evolve over time. And, if Google Glass isn't able to identify something for you, it will at least be able to tell you what characteristics to look at more closely to key something out.
