Twitter Botanicalls Kit

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Yesterday we covered the Tweet-a-Watt Kit that serves to tweet your household’s power consumption in a little KWH tweeting action and now, thanks to this Botanicalls Kit, you can have your plants tweeting you to inform you of their soil moisture levels and even tweet you to tell you they need watering (or just tweet you to offer thanks for having watered them).

Stemming (pun wholly intended) from a collaboration between Rebecca Bray, Robert Faludi, Kate Hartman and Kati London, whose prime aim appears to be ‘successful inter-species understanding’, the Botanicalls Kit acts as a networked communication system for your plants consisting of a moisture sensor which communicates with Twitter via your Wi-Fi network via an integrated Ethernet connection – thus allowing your plants to keep you updated via Twitter, wherever you may be, with respect to their current status.

If you are interested in the resulting communications, the inventors have a plant going by the name of Pothos who’s not only live on Twitter but has already gained over 2,970 followers as it offers tweets such as ‘Water me please!’, ‘You didn’t water me enough’ and ‘thank you for watering me.’ (as well as offering numerous moisture level updates).

So now, thanks to this and the aforementioned Tweet-a-Watt kit, you can have your home tweeting its power consumption as your plants remind you to water them and, somewhere in all of this, you may even add a few tweets of your own (perhaps if only to explain to your followers why your energy usage is so high or why it is that you’re patently ignoring your plant’s requests for a drop of the wet stuff.

You can update yourself with Pothos’s current status by following its twitter updates here (at the time of writing its waiting to be watered) or you can learn more concerning the Twitter Botanicalls Kit by linking through to the Botanicalls website.

[via CNET]