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Clever Low-Tech Design: This Flowerpot Tilts Askew When It Needs to be Watered

No apps, no Bluetooth, just good design and gravity

By Rain Noe - December 13, 2016

I have murdered every plant anyone's ever given me. I'm not sure if you'd classify it as criminally negligent homicide or just plants laughter, but I forget to water them, and by the time I notice the leaves are brown it's too late.

Rotterdam-based designer Sander Lorier has designed the perfect solution for folks like me. Called the Natural Balance, it's a flowerpot that lets you know when it needs to be watered, by physically altering its position:

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I love that there's no stupid apps or Bluetooth or LEDs, just simple gravity and good design.

The Natural Balance has been successfully Kickstarted, and if you want one of the €39 (about $41) units, you'd better hurry—at press time there was less than a day left to pledge.

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Clever Low-Tech Design: This Flowerpot Tilts Askew When It Needs to be Watered

Scott Sullivan

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Won't the center of mass change as the plant grows? What if a branch grows towards the cork and shifts the C of M to cancel out the 'balance' feature? Just sayin'

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I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.