Botanical Communication

Ok, this has to be one of the coolest things ever! It’s called, “Botanicalls,” and it’s a project aiming to save plants’ lives by notifying humans of their health status via phone calls. I love it! I have a hard enough time trying to keep track of my (not real life) plants on Final Fantasy XI… let alone what real life plants I’ve had. This is definitely something I would invest in! You should check out the audio samples of the phone calls on the site too… it cracks me up! In thinking about this, my brain waves start to fire up. What if they… or someone… could develop this technology further to where a device, or a set of devices could monitor plant health details such as mineral/food /water, etc… and would be able to upload that information via Wifi to a website listing up to the minute stats on all selected plants. And then one could work to connect a watering/feeding system up to a Linux server. I could really get into that. Hrm… a good idea for a programming project. LOL. I can see it now… future jobs posted for Botanical Systems Administrators… “I need to update that cron job to water those plants more frequently this month…” Or, “I need to modify that Perl script to start adding minerals to the feeding process…”