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This connected pot will use your loved one’s ashes to grow a tree
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A startup in Spain has come up with a new way to grow trees from the ashes of the deceased — and to stay “connected” with them at all times. That’s the idea behind the Bios Incube, the latest creation from Barcelona-based startup Bios Urn. The product, which launched on Kickstarter this month and has already met its funding goal, is billed as “the world’s first incubator for the afterlife,” and is designed to be paired with the company’s eponymous biodegradable urn.
The Bios Urn, released in 2013, allowed people to bury cremated remains along with a seed that, in theory, would grow into a tree. The Bios Incube replicates and controls that process within a portable container that automatically waters the plant. Sensors within the…
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/18/11261428/bios-incube-connected-pot-trees-ashes-dead-people