Another fun way for your plants to alert you to an uncomfortable dryness is via Twitter, the microblogging service. That’s right: Your fern can have its own Twitter account. A gadget called Botanicalls monitors the moisture in your plant’s soil. It then tweets when the water level gets too low. Here’s one plant’s Twitter account, so you can see what it looks like when a houseplant tweets for attention.

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