Hoshinchu’s Floating Tree ‘Air Bonsai’ may be Next Craze to hit Gardening Industry

A new highly-backed Kickstarter project launched by Japan’s Hoshinchu has created a buzz over the Internet. The project, Air Bonsai, not only offers a chance to create your own floating tree, but also inspires levitation.

Hoshinchu launched Air Bonsai project on January 21. This tiny tree, also known as ‘little star’, has some repelling magnets that help the plant floating in the air by repelling each other. They push each other and make the tiny tree float in the tree and spin slowly.

The team behind this innovative project wrote on Air Bonsai’s Kickstarter page that it took about 10 months to plan such a project. Hoshinchu also said that the little star cannot be shipped out Japan, but it is planning to join hand with some foreign partners to make the tree available for people in other regions of the globe.

The team also said that it was hoping to raise approximately $80,000 by the first day of March, but the project has already surpassed the initial target in just few days. Since the project’s launch, more than 1,590 backers have pledged over $357,355.

The tree created by Hoshinchu, a company located in Japan’s Kyushu, the Air Bonsai has two parts. “There's the little star, an orb made out of a piece of sponge just 2.3-inches in diameter, and the energy base, a white porcelain pedestal over which the little star floats and slowly rotates at a height of about an inch”, as per the maker.

The people who want to buy this little Air Bonsai for themselves can get a basic set after paying about $200. On the Air Bonsai’s Kickstarter page, the plant looks awesome, but it is smaller than it looks in the picture.