Plants phone Home – new plant monitoring sticks tell you when they’re thirsty #plants #smarttechnology #geekgirl
DoCoMo (Japan) has announced that it will start selling next year plant monitoring sticks that you insert into the plant pot or garden plot and which then communicate soil moisture and sunlight data back to a website. Experts available with the service will then email customers when they estimate, from the data received, what the watering and harvesting times should be. The sticks are expected to cost around JPY2,000 – JPY3,000 each.
Editors note: Wish they sold them in Australia 🙂
(Source: TT commentary from nikkei.com, Oct 8, 2010)