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I signed up for the original Kickstarter version of this, which failed spectacularly when it turned out genetic engineering was slightly beyond the capabilities
by closetohome 7y ago
I signed up for the original Kickstarter version of this, which failed spectacularly when it turned out genetic engineering was slightly beyond the capabilities of the college kids who started it.
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.
- ianai 7y agoWhat was the name of the company that delivered? Any chance they’re making progress on better output?
- closetohome 7y agoGleaux. Their website appears to be down though, so it's possible they went under at some point.
- Darkphibre 7y agoOh, yeah. I kickstarted this too! Got lots of updates for four years, then... nothing. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/whatever-happened-to-the-glowing-plant-kickstarter/523551/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/whatever...
- teh_infallible 7y agoI 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.