ThirstyLight keeps watch on plants so you don't have to
By Donald Melanson 
posted Nov 24th 2007 11:24AM
posted Nov 24th 2007 11:24AM
While it won't keep watch on your plants and water them like some devices we've seen, the so-called ThirstyLight will at least handle one part of that equation, with it sending out a signal in the form of a blinkin' LED light when your plants' soil gets dry. That's handled by a "Drypoint Digital Circuit," which checks moisture levels once per second and is able to discern between five different levels of dryness (relayed to you by blinking patterns of increasing urgency). If that sounds like the solution to your plant problems, you can pick one up now for $10, or get 'em in bundles of three, six, or twelve at a discount.
I so need this.
thats rather cool :) I'll probably get some.
Shrek's Q-Tip's?
Also can be used in ones beer can to indicate to the misses she's late replenishing your ale.
i wonder what my cactus would think of this
cool?
How hard is it to notice that your plants have dry soil???
Will this work for my chickens? So difficult refilling their damn water all the time lol.
This is a very basic electronics circuit. I built one similar to this back in school, when I was 13 (only 3 years ago). Mine only had 3 levels of dryness, but it would be easy to add another 2.
cool. now my bonsai will remain nourished forever and it will help me create my ultimate Zen environment.
infinite knowledge potential and uber hacking experience.
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Of course, now you'll need another device that tells you when your ThirstyLight batteries are running low.
Then another device that tells you when *that* device's batteries are running low.
u.s.w.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
When light is wet, it is raining.
will this work with infants
Great Idea! Probably not, set up like this, but I bet one could mod it so that would attach easily to a daiper.
It would be cooler if it had a sound chip that screamed and moaned in agony, instead of a blinking light.
Nice definition of 'overpriced'
Needs a wi-fi transmitter so I can check the watering status of my plants from the comfort of my desktop computer or from the internets.
I can see that making them a lot more useful!
neat, but this basically turns you into a slave to your plant. No thanks. I have enough beeps commanding me to do things already.
We had these in time gone past about 10 years ago except ours where in the form of a bird on the end that used to chirp when the soil was dry and needed watering.
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Once you start watering plants regularly then they just start to expect it.
I dont know if anyone noticed but probably due to this article this product is now sold out until Jan 08. What a shame... this seemed like a cool little gift to give for the holiday's.
This is pretty neat since I always forget to water the plants, and seems pretty clueless when the right usually is.