Internet-Enabled DIY Plant Twitter Kit

You can talk to your girlfriend or boyfriend over the internet, you can talk to your long-distance cousin over the internet, but did you know that you can talk to your house plants over the internet? Everything and everyone else is online why not your plants too?

That's right, with the DIY Plant Twitter Kit you can internet-enable any plant in your house. So you don't have a green thumb and your plants often get neglected because you're spending so much time working, or studying, or surfing the net. With the Plant Twitter Kit your plants can contact you and let you know exactly when they need water or communicate their thanks when you do water them.

The Plant Twitter Kit comes with all the parts you will need to build a translation circuit that will monitor the levels of moisture through the leads that are stuck in the soil. The circuit is simply connected to the Internet through the included Ethernet jack which translates and sends messages to a feed that you subscribe to on the popular site Twitter.com. When you read your plants Twitter you'll know exactly what it needs or wants.

Not only is the DIY Plant Twitter Kit a fun gadget to have it also gets your brain working by having to build your own gadget. Want to communicate with your plants and keep them greener longer, get your Plant Twitter Kit.

There’s a school of thought that says that plants, like higher animals, have thoughts and feelings. They have an inner voice, and can tell you their life-stories, if only you could speak "plant." It’s not a difficult language to learn, actually - there are only a few words to contend with, since all they seem to care about is how much water they’re getting. There are no masculine or feminine nouns. Plus, there are no verb tenses, because plants have no concept of linear time.

The original breakthrough was made just a few months ago when the chief scientist at CERN, attempting to converse with a patch of catnip translated through their Milliard Gargantubrain computer, was able to discern "I CAN HAZ TWITTER?" The scientist didn’t quite understand that gibberish, but his granddaughter did, and the Plant Twitter Kit was born.

Once the kit is assembled, connect it to the Internet through the built-in ethernet jack, jam the leads into the plant’s soil, and subscribe to the plant’s twitter feed. It will tell you when it needs watering, or scold you if you’ve overwatered it, and report its status in between. The DIY Plant Twitter Kit comes unassembled, so you’ll have to break out the soldering iron and get to work. Don’t worry, it’s not that difficult to put together, and the satisfaction you get from building your own translation circuit is huge.

Details

• Do-It-Yourself Kit includes everything you need to understand what your plant is saying
• Connects to Twitter over the Internet to report its watering status
• Some soldering skill is recommended but not required
• You’ll also need a soldering iron, solder, needle-nose pliers, small snips, masking tape and a flat-head screwdriver

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