The concept of Botanicalls is pretty simple: wire up your houseplant and it can give you a call to let you know if it needs water, if it's drowning, etc. Sure it smacks of geekery, but I can see there actually being a use for this if one is traveling for any length of time. Rather than having a friend come over every other day to water, simply have the plant call them up and ask for it.
Kinda makes sense, especially if you're growing exotic plants under those hidden grow lights you don't want people to know about, although at $149 bucks for the kit you better be setting this up on some really rare and expensive greenery.
So yeah, I guess I can see it.
However, the Botanicalls site also has a Twitter DIY page. Yes, you read that correctly: you can set it up so your plant Twitters when it's dry or overwatered. It will even send a tweet to thank you for watering it. What the foo?!?
I'm taking a stand on this right now. If you decide setting up your houseplant with a Twitter account is a good idea and you then follow said houseplant so you can know when something 10 feet away from you needs attention, you have a serious social media problem. Your social media accounts should be temporarily revoked and your networks ought to force you to get offline and interact with people/houseplants in the real world.
Nuff said.
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