Hasta La Gadget!

I’m not a big fan of growing stuff, mostly because I kill pretty much everything I’ve ever plant. I always water them too much or too little and eventually my plants turn dead and dry or bloated and moldy. I think I might be able to grow something using the Smart Herb Garden though.

This thing uses modern technology to grow herbs and a few vegetables right in your kitchen. You don’t have to remember to move it to the sun every now and then because it has its own LED growing lamp. All you have to do is snap in the your plant cartridges, fill the water reservoir, and the Smart Herb Garden does all the heavy lifting for you.

It doesn’t even use dirt, it has some sort of nanotech material specifically engineered to supply the plant roots with just the right amount of oxygen, water, and nutrients. The initial set comes with 3 plant cartridges: basil, lemon balm and thyme, but they plan on offering more plants down the road.

A pledge of $39(USD) or more over on Kickstarter will get you your very own smart garden by September, 2013.

While I usually associate the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with unhealthy food like pizza, it turns out the turtles can also be used to encourage healthy eating. Assuming, that is, that you plant some delicious edible plants and herbs in these TMNT flower pots and don’t use them to serve slices of cold pizza.

They’re handpainted by artist John Moriarty, and 50 bucks buys you the complete set of four pots, including Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michaelangelo. And if you don’t have a green thumb, you could always use these for storing pens, pencils, action figures, katanas or other whatnots.

You can find the full set over on Ginger Pots Etsy shop, where you can also fill your garden with pots adorned with Mario, Sonic, Optimus Prime and The Avengers among others.

Like to eat and drink, then use your computer keyboard without washing your hands? Eventually, you end up with a sticky, dirty mess of a keyboard. Apparently, one office worker was sick and tired of seeing the grimy keyboard in their co-worker’s office, and did something about it.

No, they didn’t clean it up – instead, one Redditor transformed the grimy, slimy keyboard into a pocket garden, filling the already dirty bits between the keys with more dirt, and a bunch of garden cress seeds. The end result looks something like a Chia Pet, but in keyboard form. It took only a couple of days before the seeds started to sprout, and within two weeks, it was a fully-grown sprout garden.

While it’s a hilarious prank, I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that the keyboard isn’t particularly functional anymore after being saddled with dirt, water and vegetation. I suggest that if you decide to try this on one of your vacationing office-mates, you try it with a crappy old keyboard nobody cares about.

[via Reddit via Mashable]