A Wind-Powered Tumbleweed That Heals the Desert as It Rolls - Yanko Design

I have to be upfront: I did not expect a tumbleweed to be one of the most exciting design concepts I'd encounter this year. Tumbleweeds, in the cultural imagination, belong to Westerns and dusty ghost towns. They're the kind of thing that drifts across an empty street right before a showdown, the universal shorthand for

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Strandbeest

@Daniel_Blake Strandbeasts was something completely different, it was wind powered, walking sculptures. This is actually distributing seeds to the desert to grow plants. Same means of propulsion, but different idea.

@littlealex Having read the article, I am aware what the seed-sower’s purpose is.

Yes, “prior art” usually means “this has been done before”.
I was jokingly using it to mean “previously, there was this art”.
Bombed, evidently.