This Plant Sends You Messages When it Needs Water

Filed under: Cell Phones, Computers Those of us with not blessed with a green thumb (some of us at Switched could kill a cactus) wish plants would tell you us they needed and when. A company called Botanicalls has cooked up an admittedly complicated DIY (Do It Yourself) project that lets your plants to send messages via the micro-blogging service Twitter to let you know when it needs to be watered. It even thanks you for feeding it. The project uses a tiny networked computer, a circuit you mu
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