New device might finally make it easy to keep your houseplants alive

Depending on who you ask, the answer to the question "How hard is it to keep houseplants alive?" may vary. Well, this new device seems to take a lot of the guesswork out of it, and it’s already garnered a lot of support on Kickstarter. The device is called Smartyplants, and the device is basically a sensor that can feed all kinds of information about your plant right to your smartphone.

The idea was started by Ben Beavers. Basically, you take the sensor, stuff it into the soil of your houseplant...