No more chopsticks and paddlepop sticks for beginners!

[Reece]

Taken from the Sydney Morning Herald and Apparantly on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas:


Parrot flower power
A company named after a bird wants to make life easier for your plants. A plant sensor called Flower Power from Paris-based Parrot is designed to update your mobile device with a wealth of information about the health of your plant and the environment it lives in. Just stick the y-shaped sensor in your plant's soil, download the accompanying app and — hopefully — watch your plant thrive.

"It basically is a Bluetooth smart low-energy sensor. It senses light, sunlight, temperature, moisture and soil as well as fertilizer in the soil. You can use it either indoors or outdoors," said Peter George, vice president of sales and marketing for the Americas at Parrot. The device will be available sometime this year, the company said.

Who it's for: 'Brown-thumbed' folk and plants with a will to live.

Price: Unknown.



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digi ... z2HXOubUGf


Haha!

[Bretts]

Love it

[Jason]

Great idea, this is something I'd definatley get

[bodhidharma]

lets totally desensitise ourselves with nature

[MoGanic]

lets totally desensitise ourselves with nature

Perhaps a robot to style your trees also in the near future...

In all seriousness though I might use this for my tomato plants... Probably not my trees haha

[irish]

Hi.
Will be a big seller in holland

Regards.
Irish.

[Reece]

I think the only thing this would be good for is the fertiliser part..... Besides that its a bit of a joke.

[jadecuphey87]

I agree bodhi we have slowly desensitised ourselves from everything else so why not nature hey. Little bit rediculous. learn to read your plant not let a computer do it for you. That will be where your knowledge comes from.

[PAUL2229]

hmmmm Id like to think that there is no market for this, but people are stupid and im sure they will sell a million of these to soccer mums with a brown thumb

if there was a way for it to tap into the plants vitals and see what nutrients the plant needed to grow at its full potential that would be something I might be interested in, but id probably wait for the cheap Chinese version to come out first.