Caleb Harper, a principal research scientist at the MIT Media Lab, claimed to have built a “personal food computer” that can grow any plant in a small, controlled environment. He also claimed to have ...
Caleb Harper, principal investigator and director of the Open Agriculture initiative at the MIT Media Lab. Kent Larson courtesy of MIT Media Lab In his book Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial ...
MIT Media Lab Promised Syrian Refugees Food Computers That Could Grow Any Plant—But They Didn’t Work
Personal food computers (PFCs) developed by the Open Agricultural Initiative in MIT's Media Lab and sent to Syrian refugee camps in Amman, Jordan have been revealed to be nonfunctional, according to ...
Removing a TED Talk is rare, but our team reviewed the information and this talk does not meet TED’s science guidelines and content guidelines. Harper’s 2015 TED Talk, titled “This Computer Will Grow ...
Personal Food Computers (PFC_EDUs) pair controlled-environment agriculture with open-source data sharing. The growth chambers are inexpensive and easily deployed, ideal for educators and makers. Users ...
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