Hasta La Gadget!

You’ve just sat down to a nice home-cooked meal with your family when the phone rings. Could be Grandma, you think. She still actually uses the phone for talking. But no, it’s a robocall shilling for some debt relief scam, the fifth in as many days. More »

There are some people who are just don’t know how to take care of plants. Or it might be that you’ve got some special plants in your house that need special care. It’s for reasons like that some designers decided to come up with this device, which allows you to detect the health of your plants.

An entry in the LiteOn Design Awards, The Plant Doctor was conceived by Fan Xu and Du Xubing. The device uses integrated sensors and a microcontroller to detect soil moisture, nutrition content, etc. All of this data can be charted on a transparent display so that you can monitor the health of your plants. It’s also supposed to power itself from the electrolytes in the soil. The device will analyze the soil content and process this information.

While there are similar devices on the market already, the Plant Doctor is still just a concept; but I can already see it being used all over the place, especially when horticulturists are trying to grow and care for rare plants. For the rest of us, there’s always this.

[via Yanko Design]

It’s a common little meta-game for those of us who are technically competent: keep your eye out in the movies for the most egregious technical misrepresentation you can find. And while its one thing to just keep tossing of reference after reference to “the mainframe,” this complication of hacktastic scenes put together by the folks at Hack a Day is particularly cringe-worthy. More »

Customizable fashion has always been appealing to those that like to
deviate from the norm with their clothing choices. For decades,
teenagers have approached fashion customization by cutting their
clothing, so there are stratigically placed tears that have a grunge
fashion appeal. Others have used silk screening for grapnics, or even
parmanent markers so their clothing boasts their favorite quotes. Using
these methods to customize t-shirts may be tried and true, but the whole
process leaves a greater margin for error, and you know what? Fashion
customization should really just be a whole lot more fun than that! This
is where Glow Threads comes in, as they offer the customization that
most of us know and love, but it’s done in a whiole new way.

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