Easy Bloom Might Help My Brown Thumb
Posted on 12 January 2009, at 4:28 pm, by Judie Lipsett
One of the odder – and yet possibly more useful – things that I saw at Digital Experience was a product which might just enable my plants to tell me exactly what’s wrong when they aren’t thriving. Unfortunately, this can be a common occurrence.
Called the EasyBloom, it might be easy to mistake this cartoonish plastic flower as an oversize hors d’œuvre pick, but what it is instead is a sophisticated tool that will allow plants to communicate their needs.
In a nutshell:
What it is
The EasyBloom Plant Sensor saves time and banishes frustration for home gardeners. It is an Internet-enabled gardening device that recommends which plants will thrive in a specific location and diagnoses ailing plants. The EasyBloom Plant Sensor allows anyone to enjoy a beautiful indoor or outdoor garden—from a single potted palm to a backyard full of blooms.
How it works
Place the EasyBloom Plant Sensor anywhere you’d like to enjoy a thriving plant. The device will record environmental factors, such as soil conditions, moisture and temperature. After 24 hours, plug the EasyBloom Plant Sensor into the USB port of your PC or Mac. The EasyBloom Web site will analyze your conditions and recommend plants that will thrive in that location or tell you what is wrong with a dying plant.
Spring is coming soon (believe it or not), and I can easily see how something like this might be able to keep me from killing at least a few of the plants I will inevitably buy. I am an optimist, you see; without fail I buy new plants every year, knowing that a good portion of them won’t live to see the end of summer.
The EasyBloom is PC and Mac-compatible, and available for $59.99 from many major online retailers including: Amazon.com, Buy.com, Brookstone.com, Frontgate.com, Burpee.com and Smarthome.com, and at Orchard Supply Hardware locations in California.
It sounds cool, if it works. 
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