Friday, April 5, 2013 - 6:47pm
Click & Grow's Smart Herb Garden grows all sorts of tasty greens automatically.
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Friday, February 1, 2013 - 4:42pm
AeroGrow, which creates self-contained gardening units, provides a near autonomous planting system, distributing water and nutrients every few weeks while providing a constant light source 18 hours a day.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - 8:31am
Pulling weeds up with your hands is no fun. And using chemicals isn't a great option, as they could seep into the ground and hurt surrounding plants and wildlife. Why not just burn them to death? That's what this Heated...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 6:58am
We think that robot teachers may be a bit much, but what about robot gardeners? Students and researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed robots that tend to tomato plants— no human intervention required. The...
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Monday, February 9, 2009 - 1:48pm
The EasyBloom Plant Sensor comes in two pieces: a USB-enabled processor, and the sensor it plugs into that you stick into the soil. The in-ground sensor can give you a pretty good picture of what your garden wants and needs,...
Friday, December 26, 2008 - 7:50am
Apparently, it's better for your plants to water them in the evening, so the water doesn't evaporate quickly and they can soak up as much of it as they want. Unfortunately, that means you need to garden in the dark,...
Monday, November 10, 2008 - 12:15pm
Too often, folks seem pleased enough with simply blasting all of the fallen leaves off of their property and into someone else's, into gutters, or just wherever they won't be seen. Well, if a cheap rake just isn't industrial...
Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 5:05am
If you like glowing outdoor decorations but can't quite afford these balls, consider the Glowpot. It's a white plastic pot with a light inside it that runs on triple-A batteries. When you turn it on, the pot doesn't just...
Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 4:04am
When asked to design a building for a vacant lot in downtown Manhattan, the designers at Work AC went hog wild. They're local foodies, you see, which means that they try to avoid buying produce that's traveled from far-flung...
Monday, April 14, 2008 - 11:02am
Say hello to the Stihl Yard Boss and goodbye to whatever's on the other end. The Yard Boss comes standard with a pick tine cultivator that'll aerate and shred the frail bodies of the living dead, loosening up their...
