Nobody wants plants to die of thirst and neglect. So how can we use the internet to solve this problem? Probably not with the Grovio personal plant assistant, which is currently up on Kickstarter.
Grovio is a white cylinder that sits next to your plant
and waters it through a small, unsightly hose. The device can track the
light, temperature, and humidity situation, so the Grovio app can tell
you if your plant is sad or whatever. The device can also support up to
three plants at once, in the unlikely scenario that you're willing to
ruin your whole plant aesthetic with even more hoses.
I don't know if Grovio is good at its job, or if the
app's notifications are useful and timely. I just know that hoses are a
non-starter for me. Build the watering mechanism and sensors into the pot,
or just give me a butler robot already who can roam through my home and
keep things alive. But let's not serve the aesthetics of plants with a
sterile monolith plant neighbor that has water-filled hoses sprouting
out of it.
Sorry for being so negative. I didn't realize going into
this how strongly I feel about water delivery mechanisms. You can back
Grovio for the early-bird price of $99, and it's supposed to ship by the
end of the year.
The article was published on : theverge
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