Back in February we showed you a slightly botched-together system that lets your houseplants Twitter, but now there’s a complete kit available. After soldering it together, you simply shove it deep into your plant’s pot, connect it up to with an ethernet cable, and when its moisture sensors detect that you’ve been a bit lax in watering it’ll Twitter with a “water me please” prompt. Ignoring it won’t work as it’ll step up the game with an urgent Tweet, and over-watering’ll earn you a scolding. It’s possibly the only way I’d remember to feed Reg, my sadly dessicated lemon tree…though at this rate of digitizing the average home is at risk of networking overload. Out now for $US99. [ via OhGizmo]
As we get closer to yet another Apple event, the rumour mill is operating at full speed and everyone has “sources.” The latest to offer up a juicy bit of gossip is Jason Calacanis, who went on record in an interview with CNET UK as saying that he has direct sources telling him Apple is developing a networked LCD HDTV that will have built-in Apple TV capabilities. Immediately, this brought up a smattering of conflicting ideas and opinions from a few of us at Giz as to whether or not this makes sense. And if it does happen, we almost certainly won’t see it on Tuesday. Ultimately, we’re still undecided one way or the other, but here’s what we think on the matter.
I bet it’s not a coincidence either – what better way to say that “your content is safe” than by selling a hard drive that looks like a safe? The ShareSpace from WD comes with four bays for storage, and is available in both 2TB and 4TB versions.
With that amount of space, you’d expect some solid software for backup, and WD delivers with included software for continuous network backup of up to three computers. There’s also their MioNet software for remote access of your wireless drive, a download manager for managing downloads via FTP or HTTP and a built-in FTP server.
But the most impressive aspect is the price: For 2TB you’ll pay $749, while the 4TB version will set you back $1,499. That’s a little price for a lot of storage.
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