Hummingbir
d Technologies is creating a system that will grow fresh vegetables, spices, and herbs right on your kitchen counter – green thumb not required! Danny Varghese, MBA’16, is CFO of the startup that won an Arch Grants last year. Danny worked on the company’s business plan in The Hatchery course with Cliff Holekamp and has recruited Olin undergrads to work with his team of engineering friends and co-founders from Illinois Institute of Technology.
Their product is called the Nectar. According to the website, it is “essentially a smart greenhouse that utilizes machine learning, an extensive lighting system, a hydroponic system and multiple sensors that monitor and regulate temperature, humidity and pH to create optimal growing conditions for any plant. All that is required of Nectar users is simply dropping seeds into the system.”
The suite of Nectar products from the Hummingbird website.
Read more about the Hummingbird Nectar intelligent gardening system in the St. Louis Business Journal or on the Hummingbird website.
This is interesting. I suppose it is gonna be so expensive. But the question is should we concentrate on saving the environment and the world or technologies that would keep us alive in case of an apocalypse. I think everyone should do organic gardening in whatever space they have rather than spending too much money for buying and research and development of such devices.