Follow TechBlips on Twitter
Connect Your Plant To Twitter
GadgetReview —
... them. My guess is that I just saturated them with H20 until they couldn’t breath, or didn’t provide enough water for them to live. This DIY Plant Twitter Kit requires a little soldering, not to mention inspiration, but when it’s constructed, inserted in the soil and connected to your Internet, it’ll auto Twitter it’s needs and status.
Too bad they don’t make a version for girlfriends. Zing!
You can grab it here for $100
...
Aw sweet - looks like the Palin family have a new addition: http://tinyurl.com/4ajjf2. Van Palin.
Politweets —
... King Tut." 6:37 AM Nov 5th from web @ seen_it_ Glad it all worked out - sorry I missed it - just too much going on. See you soon I hope! 4:01 AM Nov 5th from web in reply to seen_it_ 76 days until the White House - http://www.isobamapresident... 1:04 AM Nov 5th from web Re: last post warning! "You’ll also need a soldering iron, solder, needle-nose pliers, small snips, tape and a flat-head screwdriver" 5:54 AM Nov 4th from web http://www.thinkgeek.com/ga... - I need this. For my parsley. 5:50 AM Nov 4th from web ...
jkOnTheRun Fifth Annual Geek Holiday Gift Guide
jkOnTheRun —
... 2. Plant Twitter Kit- your geek is all over the Twitter and it only makes sense that his/ her plants are too. This kit will allow the geek’s houseplant to notify her via Twitter when it needs watering or when it’s been over-watered. Now that’s geeky. $99.99 ...
jkOnTheRun Fifth Annual Geek Holiday Gift Guide [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network —
... 2. Plant Twitter Kit- your geek is all over the Twitter and it only makes sense that his/ her plants are too. This kit will allow the geek's houseplant to notify her via Twitter when it needs watering or when it's been over-watered. Now that's geeky. $99.99 ...
8 oddball Twitter utilities
Webware.com —
... (soldering irons and knowledge of electronics is required) and place into the soil a plant is in. It measures moisture in the soil and connects to an Ethernet port on your router to transmit data to Twitter or your mobile phone. In order to use the tool's Twitter feature, you'll need to create a new Twitter account with the name of your Botanicalls unit and follow that account. Once complete, Botanicalls will send you tweets each time the plant needs watering.
It costs $99.99, though, and as we said, assembly is required. See also:
London's ...
Ignite Show: Kati London on Botanicalls: Homegrown Terra-rists
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. —
... Ignite Show. This week's speaker is Kati London, the co-creator of Botanicalls, a device that will let you know when your plant needs watering via Twitter. Kati doesn't spend much time explaining Botanicalls instead she talks about some fun(ny) uses for it.
If you want to learn more about Botanicalls check out their site. Or you can see what the Twitter feed of one Robert Plant (an orchid) is like. Or you can pick up a kit at Maker Shed or ThinkGeek. Botanicalls was created by Kati London (the speaker), Rob Faludi, ...
Little Shop of Twitterers
Inventor Spot - Inventions, Innovations, and Interesting Ideas for the Inventor in All of Us —
... . The mechanism is made of soil moisture sensors that transmits information through a circuit board to a micro-controller, which in turn interprets and tweets announcements in accordance with the plant's needs. According to the instructions, once the $99 Botanicalls kit is Image Image assembled, a connection to the Internet and leads buried in the plant’s soil will get you up and running in no time. Once operational, you then subscribe to Twitter for the plant's personal registration. Don’t worry, it’s not that difficult to assemble, and the satisfaction you will get from ...
Botanicalls: Wenn deine Pflanzen anfangen, über Twitter um Wasser betteln
Ausgefallene Gadgets & Geschenkideen —
... zwischen verschiedenen Dringlichkeitsstufen unterscheiden. Während bei leichter Trockenheit im Pflanzgefäß noch gemäßigte Botschaften wie oben kommen, wird es kurz bevor sich die Blätter der Pflanze in Staub verwandeln ein wenig dringlicher: “URGENT! Water me!” Dafür dankt es einem die Pflanze aber auch mit einem “Thank you for watering me!”, wenn sie endlich gewässtert wurde. Das Botanicalls DIY Plant Twitter Kit gibt es hier für 99 USD. ...
