Oct 30 2008Great, Now Even Our Plants Are Twittering
That's right folks, thanks to ThinkGeek's $100 DIY Plant Twitter Kit, now even your houseplants can Twitter their little photosynthesizing hearts out.
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.
Finally, Twittering plants! Technology is amazing, isn't it? And in other Twitter news, Geekologie tipster Vanessa just informed me Britney Spears has signed up. So, yeah.
GeekologieWriter: @ the world. Well played. Goodbye you cruel bastard.
Thanks to Sarah and Vanessa, whose Twitter feeds I read religiously.
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Reader Comments
1. Antonio - October 30, 2008 5:22 PM
I love talking Plants!
2. Mcfeely Smackup - October 30, 2008 5:22 PM
I don't understand why you say the shadows are all wrong. I'm a photoshop editor and this is obviously not a photoshop job. I think you're retarded.
3. Antonio - October 30, 2008 5:24 PM
But why Twitter? I think the device should setup a myspace page for your plant. and this reminds me of M. Night Shamaylan's The Happening.
4. C-Basstian - October 30, 2008 5:25 PM
he better not off himself.. then what the f*** am i gonna read???
5. mamadough - October 30, 2008 5:32 PM
seriously? are people so f***ing inept that they have to buy a device and hook up their plant to the internet to tell their dumb asses how to take care of the plant? if you can't figure it out, then don't have a f***ing plant. i'm sure you can't even dress yourself or wipe your ass properly. you know what my plants status is in between waterings? it's f***ing sitting there. AH!
*sorry, i don't know why this pissed me off so much.....
6. Moose Knuckle - October 30, 2008 5:39 PM
Can I get one for my pants to alert my girfriend it's time for some... er... watering?
just sayin' pew
7. Davo - October 30, 2008 5:41 PM
is this product compatible with the automated robot arm water tap operator? Shoot, if you're that lazy, buy a fake ficus.
8. LSDiesel - October 30, 2008 5:42 PM
It would come in handy if we could adapt it for the elderly, because lets face it, they don't always know when it's time for a bowel movement.
9. Gizmoduck - October 30, 2008 5:46 PM
f*** twitter
TITS OR GTFO LOL
10. bethied - October 30, 2008 5:51 PM
Seriously, you need the internet to tell you what your plant is thinking? Ten bucks says the Twitter website tries to sell you porn. Might cheer GW right up . . .
11. MTWTF - October 30, 2008 6:42 PM
your plant goes to college
Pew pew
12. Coffee - October 30, 2008 6:43 PM
"On twitter feeds
An odd regression
Ancient memes
Find new expression
Burma Shave"
I love XKCD
13. Test Tickles - October 30, 2008 7:20 PM
Shut up, Mcfeely Smackup. You don't know anything about photoshop. Your shadows are all wrong.
14. Daisy - October 30, 2008 7:22 PM
Fake!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell because the shadows are all wrong.
It looks like Max's science project from the movie Never Back Down
15. claire - October 30, 2008 8:25 PM
what the f*** is twitter?
16. RIMTUCK - October 31, 2008 12:32 AM
FR1ST!!!!
17. Mort - October 31, 2008 5:36 AM
Have to ask how meny science projects does max have. i only ask because this seams to be like his tenth one so far.
18. Thumperchica - October 31, 2008 8:50 AM
@15 - I was wondering the same thing....
WTF IS TWITTER?????????????
19. dadoren - October 31, 2008 10:04 AM
I can attach them to my pets so i know when to feed them or when they need to go out ???
20. ray - October 31, 2008 11:53 AM
I got one of these, and my plant just keeps telling me that it's going to kill me. And sleep with my wife.