Pothos on Twitter
It seems that nearly every day someone is figuring out a way to plug another object of their into Twitter. It’s pretty interesting to watch, because creativity can run wild when you put your mind to figuring out ways that an object can send a 140-character message to you.
This latest one is very simple, but pretty unique:
Kate Hartman and Rob Faludi of New York University decided to make a system that allows a plant to tell its owner, via Twitter, that it needs water.
The idea is actually a continuation of an older idea from 2007, where Hartman and Faludi made a system that called its owner over the telephone: