The silly reason of news has arrived a little early with this story of thirsty plants phoning their owners to ask for more water.
A group of post-grads at New York University, have been working on a project they call “Botanicals”, which consists on a water sensor in the soil, connecting over a wireless LAN to place a phone call when the plant needs attention.
And if it’s not weird enough to get calls from your plants, each one is given a voice with a distinct characteristic - Scots Moss, as an example, phones with a Scottish accent.
“We wanted to make sure that you weren’t just getting phone calls that were really needy. So we have them calling you back when you’ve watered them to say thank you for watering me.”
So maybe Prince Charles was right all along.
I did a deal in 2002 with the CSIRO (Australia’s peak scientific body) where they were using sensors to measure moisture in the soil (for farmers). When it dropped below the set threshold the GSM modem would send a text message and start up the irrigation system!
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Like I don’t have enough grief from my family complaining that I never call them! Still, at least my wife wouldn’t be able to come home from a trip away to find all the plants dead again.
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