You traditionally don’t really see a lot of plant-related technology at CES. After all, most of us are too busy doting over our shiny new gadgets to be bothered to keep house plants alive. PlantSense is looking to make the job of not killing plants a touch easier with its EasyBloom sensor. After all, the company points out, almost a third of the plants bought in the US every year (about $21 billion worth) die within the first year of their purchase.
Plug the EasyBloom into a pot and it will monitor soil conditions, temperature, and moisture. The device has a built in USB dongle which users plug into their computer after 24 hours worth of data collection. The company’s site monitors the conditions and lets you know what plants will thrive in them.
The gadget is available now for $59.95 from Amazon, Brookstone, and other stores. Check out a video of the EasyBloom in action, after the jump.
The second real day of 
3D glasses, “unlike any other prototype before. They let you watch a movie while walking around. “Tom why don’t you try?” “Oh look, they’re so cool and hip…They’re going to get even better than they are now? I’ll be checking the Fedex.” “Will you take the hold off my paycheck for Angels and Demons now?”
Howard: “I’m not recession proof.” He has seven principles for the industry: Fusion of industries, open technologies (Linux, consumers expect choice), social networking, squeezing more money out of consumers (he calls this a “value chain” and “good business,” go green, etc. Nothing unobvious or mindscrewingly revolutionary.
Connected photo frame/alarm clock/screen thing with Chumby power—plays video, Big Ben alarm clock. Very cool. Quoting Letterman on weather from it: “It’s so cold in NY right now, Bernie Madoff is actually looking forward to burning in hell.””
Flex OLED protoype, eco-friendly. “How many people get a chance to squeeze Beyonce? I hope Jay-Z isn’t in the room.”
Pixar dude John Lasseter is here. “Sound check: Is my shirt loud enough in the back?” I want one. He’s here to pimp Blu-ray: “You can’t go back.” Showing Wall-E on Blu-ray. Man I love that movie.
Talking PSP and PS3 and how they interact. Kaz Hirai coming up. Talking about PlayStation Network and how it’s expanding what you can do with PS3.
America’s doctor, Dr. Oz is getting his own show thanks to Sony. Find out why your penis doesn’t work the way it used to, everyday. Oh, by the way, you’re a fatass. He just said Sir Howard is bulbous dude. He should be six foot six to match his weight. Drop your belly fat or DIE. Outside of a fried food convention, this has to be the most ironic place he could drop this speech. High fructose corn syrup is the devil, says Dr. Oz. I knew it!
Sony is all up in the new Yankees stadium. 550 Bravia LCDs. The whole park is on,e giant Sony commercial. Reggie Jackson is here. Says he can’t wait to see the new Sonyized Yankee Stadium. New candy bar: Reggie Bar. Tom Hanks loves it.
Dreamworks Animation CEO Katezenberg up to talk about 3D. Two revolutionary events in the history of cinema: The arrival of sound, then the arrival of color. He thinks 3D will be the third. (How conveniently poetic.) “It’s not your father’s 3D.” It’s 
Sir Howard’s back up with a Sony Ericsson phone, has Gracenote for identifying songs. And hey, 
Hello, Usher. He’s in 3D too, but no glasses required. Usher: “Yeah I do…. know a lot about technology. *Pause* Sony technology.” He just had two sons, captured experience with… Sony. Howard asks if Usher misses the album. Usher says Sony Ericsson lets him make an album. Also mentions Sony sponsored his Broadway run on Chicago, which Tom Hanks’ wife was also in. Woooo, the incestuous commercialization—as entertainingly, ironically self-aware as they’re trying to make it (and it is)—is mud-pie thick.
