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GE Appliances Shows Off Future Kitchen Technology At CES
Louisville-based GE Appliances, a Haier Company, will reveal its reimagination of the home at CES 2020, which comes in the form of two new kitchen concepts: “Shift,” and “Home Grown.”
LG's Herb Fridge Is A Full-Size Indoor Gardening Center
You've heard of wine and beer fridges, but what about an herb fridge? LG thinks this full-size greens grower will be the next big thing
Miele Acquires Consumer Indoor Vertical Farm Company Agrilution
Agrilution’s Plantcubes look like wine fridges that are meant to be built directly into home kitchens. The automated systems regulate the lighting, climate, and water levels plants receive, all key parts of delivering the right “recipe” of nutrients to crops grown in vertical farms
AIPLUS, A Developer of Smart Home Farming Appliance
Just as every home has a refrigerator, all households may have a smart home farming appliance in the future. AIPLUS is seeking to open a new frontier in agriculture and create another blue ocean in the home appliance industry.
Homefarm In 2019
In August, Homefarm had the privilege of partnering with South African premier kitchen design firm Slavin at the Decorex Johannesburg Design show. It was an opportunity to showcase another example of a built-In Homefarm 'double-stack' in a stunning kitchen
MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito Resigns Amid Epstein Funding Fallout
The director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab stepped down on Saturday after a New Yorker magazine article revealed the lab tried to conceal donations from disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein, the university said
Mini Greenhouse For Microgreens
The fully automated "Plantcube" greenhouse from Munich-based company Agrilution offers a closed ecosystem for plants and, according to the manufacturer, optimal growth conditions. Irrigation is done automatically
MIT Built A Theranos For Plants
The prestigious multidisciplinary MIT Media Lab built a “personal food computer” that worked so poorly that demos had to be faked Theranos-style, per a weekend report in Business Insider
Explore Future of Food In Virtual Reality At University of Cambridge Festival of Ideas
Did you know that only 20 per cent of the fish we harvest each year actually ends up in our stomachs? Now Natural Machines is using its Foodini 3D printing technology to create an edible product from offcuts that would otherwise be wasted
This Brilliant Hydroponic System Puts A Whole Garden On Your Countertop
Growing your own food is one of life’s great pleasures—plus it’s good for you and for the environment. But in increasingly tight, urban homes, we don’t all have room for gardens
The Epstein-Funded MIT Lab Has An Ambitious Project That Purports To Revolutionize Agriculture. Insiders Say It’s Mostly Smoke And Mirrors
Ahead of big demonstrations with MIT Media Lab funders, staff were told to place plants grown elsewhere into the devices, the insiders said. In other instances, devices delivered to local schools simply didn’t work. “It’s fair to say that of the 30-ish food computers we sent out, at most two grew a plant,” one person said
Heliponix Capturing Innovation And Hearts In Indiana's Great Southwest
Heliponix is an Agriculture Technology company that sells the GroPod to consumers. The GroPod is a revolutionary smart appliance that grows fresh produce in your home any time of year with an organic seed-pod subscription without any preservatives or pesticides
Indoor Garden Works’ (IGWorks™) iHarvest Kickstarter Introduces A Beautiful, Soilless Indoor Garden For Growing Big Fruits And Vegetables At Home
IGWorks™ announces the April 16th launch of their Kickstarter campaign for the patent pending iHarvest™: a beautiful hydroponic system that will reinvent vegetable gardening
Grow Strong: African Farmers, Entrepreneurs Revamp Agriculture Norms Through Purdue Partnership
Scott Massey, a Purdue University graduate and founder of Heliponix, a company that makes an appliance that fits under a kitchen counter and grows produce year-round, is hoping to change that by bringing sustainable agriculture methods in Cameroon.
BREAKING NEWS: Heliponix Wins Second Stage Investment From Purdue University Venture Ag-Celerator Fund. Midwest AgTech Investments On The Rise.
Midwest indoor agriculture startup, Heliponix (Evansville, IN) has won a second stage investment of $50k from the Purdue Ventures Ag-Celerator fund in West Lafayette, IN

