Device Allows Plants to Send Text Messages

Aug-15-09 Researchers have designed a soil-moisture sensor device called Botanicalls that can allow a house plant to communicate with its owner. The device can send short messages to a mobile phone or via twitter.

The messages can range from reminders to water the plant, a thank you or a warning that you over- or under-watered it. To communicate, probes in the soil emit electric waves. A voltage level based on the moisture content is sent through two wires to a circuit board that compares the optimum moisture level with the current one.

Each plant kit is $99.

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