Live Flowerpots

The Flowerpot Men were the bane of my existence when I was a child visiting relatives in England. The automated flower pot developed for the One2One project at the MIT Media Lab Europe doesn't seem likely to trigger such psychological trauma. The flower pot blossoms when the right person (in this case the developer's girlfriend) logs in to the computer, and closes up when they log out. The batteries have to be watered every few days though.