Re:Living Plants That Glow Like a Lamp (2018)
by teh_infallible on Friday May 10, 2019 @11:44PM
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I backed that Kickstarter too! They found it more difficult than they anticipated, but I’m still glad I backed them. They made a good faith effort to do something cool, and as I recall, they were good about communicating their efforts and obstacles.
What was the name of the company that delivered? Any chance they’re making progress on better output?
Re:Living Plants That Glow Like a Lamp (2018)
by closetohome on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @07:38PM
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Gleaux. Their website appears to be down though, so it's possible they went under at some point.
Re:Living Plants That Glow Like a Lamp (2018)
by Darkphibre on Friday May 10, 2019 @08:05PM
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Oh, yeah. I kickstarted this too! Got lots of updates for four years, then... nothing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/whatever...
Eventually an actual scientist (one of the originators of the technology) started his own glowing plant company, and they actually delivered. I had a real live glowing tobacco plant that lived for about three years.
It was dim enough that to view it, you had to go into a completely dark room and let your eyes adjust for about ten minutes.
Pretty cool though.