Seeds of Imagination

April 10, 2006 7:55 AM

Seeds of Imagination operates on the premise that talking (er, typing) to your plants encourages interesting growth. Try: sun, water, love, happy, fruit, etc. If a word is recognized, you will see it float up toward your plant. If not, it just disappears without a trace. You may also change the color of parts of the plant by typing in colors. (note: Flash, subtle ad)
posted by crunchland (15 comments total)

Well this explains it. All this time, I've been talking to my plants and telling them to "boycott GE" and that "GE sucks" and the words were disappearing without a trace.
posted by three blind mice at 8:15 AM on April 10, 2006

Some of the plants you can make are really frickin scary looking.
posted by Bugbread at 8:24 AM on April 10, 2006

Try: global warming, ozone depletion, nuclear waste, acid rain, habitat destruction, murder, death, kill, etc.
posted by unmake at 8:32 AM on April 10, 2006

i tried global warming. It didn't do anything. I was really hoping "greenwashing" would bring back some fun effects, but no...
posted by jrb223 at 8:33 AM on April 10, 2006

"flood" caused more rain than regular "rain"
"thunder" caused thunder
"drought" caused the sun to come out, but nothing fancy
"dry" caused something vaguely smokelike to come from the flower
It understood "burn", but didn't do anything with it. Same with "worm".
It understood "bees", but not "birds".

I feel like I'm doing a word search, trying to find hidden animations by the programmers.
posted by Bugbread at 8:36 AM on April 10, 2006

I followed a hint and typed in 'heya', which caused my plant to grow for the first time.

It then continued to grow after I typed in:
"You seem to like Outkast" and
"That's a rather phallic growth pattern".
posted by CRM114 at 9:12 AM on April 10, 2006

I liked this better when it was selling Whoppers.
posted by boo_radley at 9:16 AM on April 10, 2006

hehe. it knows "coffee" and it grows when you type "miracle".
posted by ab3 at 9:17 AM on April 10, 2006

Trippy. It reminds me of the all-night LSD experience I had with Thomas Dolby.
posted by Meatbomb at 9:17 AM on April 10, 2006

Hahaha, try "huge". Trippy, man, makes me want to buy GE products...
posted by Meatbomb at 9:23 AM on April 10, 2006

For purposes of this app, ge=huge. I never realised ge had such a positive impact on the environment. I'm sold!
posted by Meatbomb at 9:29 AM on April 10, 2006

"gum" makes the flowers blow bubbles
posted by bigmusic at 9:47 AM on April 10, 2006

I told my plant to wither, shrink, shrivel, wilt, and die. It dissapeared pretty quickly.
posted by anthill at 10:27 AM on April 10, 2006

Type in "hate" enough and you can kill it.
posted by sourwookie at 12:16 PM on April 10, 2006

It understood "burn", but didn't do anything with it. Same with "worm".

When I typed "worm" little worms jumped out of the soil and did flips like dolphins.
posted by Frisbee Girl at 12:50 PM on April 10, 2006