Flower Power - 8 January 2013 - The World’s Strangest Things

8:45:04 PM Flower Power
There will be caveats, but first, the excitement: Parrot, makers of an increasingly strange spectrum of products—including Phone-controlled drones and high-end Bluetooth headphones—unveiled a Bluetooth sensor for plants at CES Unveiled; with the unfortunate name of Flower Power. For anyone unable to foster plant life, this could be great news. Drive the slingshot-looking device into the soil of a potted plant, and it will gauge light, humidity and salinity levels. Better yet, it’ll transmit this data to an iPhone or iPad via Bluetooth Smart (low-power Bluetooth). You can use this info immediately, such as to shift the plant’s position for better sun exposure, or the app can send alerts, asking for more water, and supplying charts that indicate when you tend to water it, and when you actually should. The company is being somewhat vague on pricing ("how much do you think it should be?") and availability (sometime this year), but the accompanying app is so useful and beautiful, we’ll wait.
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