Shop E Store Bird Buddy, the best known startup for converting the bird watch into a hobby lived live with its food cams with AI, is brancing. Literally.
First we saw the new duo of the Wonder brand, Petal and Blocks, in CES in January, where we gave a better show to the first.
And now, you can ask them through Kickstarter … although the shipment is not estimated until June 2026.
Starting with the wonderful petal and is a garden chamber with solar energy designed to silently observe insects, flowers and anything else that is spending or growing in its flowers of flowers.
It joins with the wider modular system called Wonder Blocks, which includes pots, pollinators and a central frame similar to Trellis.
The petal is essentially a 4K and 12MP camera in a flexible stem that can get stuck on the ground, cut in a pot or mount in a more permanent way. A small solar panel disguised with leaf helps keep it fed, and the camera lens can be changed depending on whether it points to the foreground macro or a broader footage.
The idea is to facilitate the capture of what is happening at soil level; From butterflies landing on flowers to bees visiting a patch of wild flowers.
Petal uses what he calls “Nature Intelligence”, a computer vision combination and sound recognition that can supposedly detect and interpret events such as pollinated bees, a flowering flower or a butterfly that flutter their wings.
The most interesting thing is how this fits into the widest ambitions of Bird Buddy. With astonishment, the company is moving beyond the birds to create what it describes as a “platform of the rear patio ecosystem.”
The Wonder Blocks system is modular, think about Lego nerds for nature, and includes things such as water pots, bees hotels, butterfly feeders and micro water characteristics. All designed to attract more biodiversity, and everything (of course) traceable through the Wonder application.
While part of this runs the risk of tilting the territory of tricks, there is also a genuine potential here, particularly for families, schools or any person who seeks to understand (and support) the quieter parts of local wildlife.
And from a team that has already delivered a blow to this space, the execution may live up to the promise.
The Kickstarter includes multiple packages, from a single petal ($ 129) to a complete Wonder Blocks configuration ($ 299+) and a “hero” package of $ 499 that throws two petals, planters, pollinator shelters and the modular frame.
Subscription is not required, and existing Bird Buddy users can apparently expect multiplatform characteristics in the future.
It is not cheap, but if the technology is maintained, it could make the idea of the “intelligent garden” feel less like a novelty and more as something that is really worth planting.
