Little (?) Shop of Horrors in New York: a group of NYU students created Botanicalls, an innovative project which “establishes a way for thirsty plants to effectively communicate their needs to humans – by placing phone calls to their owners.

Utilizing moisture sensors - which are attached to the plants - as well as an open-source telephony application called Asterisk, the programmed software triggers Asterisk to call a designated number whenever a plant needs watering.”

For now they are only calling …

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Update (3/20):  Botanicalls’s is getting picked up by  O’Reilly Radar and  BL Ochman.