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Bird Buddy ’s smart dame feeders are a stark confluence of different consumer technology . Breakthroughs in security cameras , AI , and solar charging have converged into a wonderful little intersection that has captured public imagination .
At CES 2025 , the startup ’s Almighty announced an enlargement into another fender of the animal kingdom . curiosity is a new sub - marque bring some of that deception to the man of louse — specifically pollinator like butterflies and bee .
The stain is launching this twelvemonth with a pair of Cartesian product : Petal and Wonder Blocks . The former is in line with subsist Bird Buddy production . It ’s something akin to a trail photographic camera for louse .
“ Petal seamlessly merges cutting - edge engineering and technology to snap and live watercourse wildlife direct to your smartphone or smart twist of choice , ” Wonder note . “ Using Nature Intelligence , an advanced AI layer , the raw television camera gadget interprets the sights and auditory sensation of nature , from chick hatching to the flapping of a butterfly ’s wings , a flower flower and bee pollinating it , bringing a vivacious man to your fingertips . ”
The Petal name derive from the Cartesian product ’s resemblance to a flower , with a solar control panel do as a folio on its stem . The stem , meanwhile , is flexible , serve as a wager in the ground or spiral around a tree branch .
Wonder identify Blocks as “ a modular set for building vibrant , biodiverse raw worlds . ” In essence , it ’s a cylindrical system that contains various elements including a industrial plant raft , source tray , butterfly stroke feeder , and bee and bug “ hotels . ” The Petal can be mount on top .
Given the number the local squirrel have done on my smart chick confluent , I can only imagine the field mean solar day they ’re going to have with this matter .
