Thirsty plants can Twitter for water

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Thirsty plants can Twitter for water

Chances are you've never had a conversation with your house plants but if they could talk, what would they say? "Water me."

Researchers at New York University's interactive telecommunications program have come up with a device that allows plants to tell owners when they need water or if they've had too much via the social network blogging service Twitter.

How bizarre

and more to the point...why?

[Stringent]

Because people are far to engrained in their social network they forget to do the simplest of things. The water plant thing has been around for ages though.

[Mblaster]

What a stupid idea, instead of linking the system to twitter they should link it to an automatic watering system...

[mmh]

What a stupid idea, instead of linking the system to twitter they should link it to an automatic watering system...

agreed