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the parrot flower power what the hell is this you might be asking yourself and
what it is is a very Innovative little product as the wise Sheldon Cooper once
said Penny everything is better with
Bluetooth now you can use Bluetooth to grow your plants right now compatibility
is limited to iOS devices only that support Bluetooth smart but
compatibility may be extended to other Platforms in the future however it does
need bluetooth smart in order to function it has to be very power
efficient in order for something like this to make sense the flower power is
meant to be planted close to an indoor or outdoor plant it is water resistant
so that is ipx 5 and ipx7 certification and features sensors
which I I'm trying to extract it from the box ah there we go all right it
features sensors for sunlight so that
one's right here soil moisture which is actually very look at this eco-friendly
cardboard packaging I love it even the little like fake planter box that comes
in is a uh is like a piece of paper and
then there's like a little packet that looks like seeds or something with the
instructions in it it's adorable those parrot guys they so funny anyway
sunlight soil moisture I'm going to stop buying time for myself to get this thing
out of here aha okay soil moisture
fertilizer levels and finally air temperature are all detected by this
thing so it is designed for people like me who allow things like that to happen
to every plant that they touch look how dead that thing is I even my wife had a
fairly Brown thumb for the longest time until she finally had one flower an
orchid that she managed to keep alive for an extended period of time which I
plan to steal and see if I can then replicate that feet by using this it
sends push notifications to your phone and you set it up by selecting from a
database of more than 6,000 plants trees and vegetables and it'll basically tell
you stuff like oh hey you could more optimally position this plant in order
to get the right amount of sunlight or hey this plant needs water you're 3 days
late and cool stuff like that so without further Ado I have to go retrieve that
flower which might be a bit of a problem
all right so I have a dastardly plan to test the flower power I'm going to head
home and I'm going to steal my wife's plant okay I don't think she sees
me
sh okay got to switch to night vision
mode oh that doesn't seem to be working very well
H oh bollocks I guess I could just turn on a light ah yes apparently night
vision Mode still needs a little bit of light
ow kids all right there's the
victim the flower that I'm stealing
now putting it by the door taking it with me tomorrow
she will never
know why are you taking my orchid I don't have your orchid I don't
know what you're talking about this is her Orchid I'm taking it
so I can test the the plant monitor app
thing all right so I have returned alive from my mission here guys and I've also
figured out how to install the battery in this thing so positive terminal down
then it's got a nice little Rubber seal here you go ahead and uh pop that bad
boy into place there you go twist it so
it's can you know stay oh there you go look at that green thing goes on so what
I'm going to do is because I don't own an iPad Mini or you know an iPhone 4S or
an iPad third gen is I'm actually going to borrow one to set this up then in the
time that I'm waiting for mine to come in um we will give it about a week and
see if the plant manages to stay alive so we're just going to stab it into the
plant here which hopefully won't damage it and there you have it it is installed
wish me luck because if this thing dies in the week that we are testing this I
will die too so I think the conclusion for this
is actually fairly simple now I've had this plant uh running on the flower
power since wow actually uh it's been uh
just over a month and so you can actually see it gives you little handy
little graphs here you can look at live data you can look at Daily data weekly
data so you can break down things like sunlight in terms of how it's doing for
light per day versus per week so you can
see patterns in the daylight over even as much as a month 3 months 6 months
over a year and I think the conclusion here is that while the flower power can
tell you all of this information you can actually see the plant isn't in very
good shape there's nothing it can do to make you actually deal with it um so in
this case you can see the water level when I got the plant was around uh well
around 15% and then it dropped all the way down to about 5% which looks like it
might have floored out which might even be the lowest that it can measure and
then I just kind of didn't do anything with it for like about 10 or 15 days in
there and so yeah is it in the greatest condition no but is that the flower
power's fault no it actually seems to work incredibly well uh the only thing
that it didn't track for me was fertilizer which makes sense because I
don't have any fertilizer in here at all so there you go guys if you're looking
for a supremely awesome gift for the gardener and your family and you're
willing to spend 60 bucks for something that helps you at least know how to take
care of your plants even if it doesn't help you be any less you know absent-minded about actually doing
anything I mean it does give you notifications okay it does help you be
less absent minded okay if it doesn't help you be less lazy then there you go
guys the flower power looks like a very very cool little Gadget as always guys
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I'd love to hear if you guys can think of someone in your family this would make sense for and of course there's a
link to where to buy it in the video description but uh you know what do you
think of just generally connected items like this are you okay having connected
stuff all over your house or would you rather we just like you know treat you
know just learn how to take care of your plants and just do it love to hear what
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