MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Computers That Didn't Work

Re:MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Comput... by iamleppert on Friday October 25, 2019 @02:12AM (#21352351)

What if you could pipe enough direct sunlight from outside, into the chamber? And be able to control the intensity of the delivered sunlight? Would there still be a novelty product there to have a big enough market with a decent price point?

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Re:MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Comput... by knzhou on Friday October 25, 2019 @02:14AM (#21352367)

> What if you could pipe enough direct sunlight from outside, into the chamber?

Isn't this just called a window?

If you're at the point where you're using soil from outside and sunlight from outside, to support a tiny device, why not just use a pot by the windowsill?

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Re:MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Comput... by xkcd-sucks on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:09AM (#21354551)

You could make a whole building out of windows... Maybe call it a clearhouse or something

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Re:MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Comput... by dxbydt on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:51AM (#21354904)

I think Bill Gates prefers the term Microsoft.

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Re:MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Comput... by tim333 on Friday October 25, 2019 @06:32AM (#21353558)

Or use that cutting edge tech, the field.

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Re:MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Comput... by ClumsyPilot on Friday October 25, 2019 @05:03AM (#21353130)

if you are in the business of growing anything commercial food-related, the more sunlight the better. You don't control it, you take all you can get.

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Re:MIT Media Lab Scientist Used Refugees to Tout Food Comput... by dekhn on Friday October 25, 2019 @10:34AM (#21355343)

light pipes do exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_tube and I think people do use them.

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