The gadget works like so: You stick the sensor in your soil, indoors or outdoors (since winter's approaching, it'll probably be indoors for most of us), and let it get some measurements. Then, once it ...

Spring has sprung, and it’s time to start planting outside, or at least to start thinking about it. The easyBloom plant sensor is a handy device to help gardeners select the right plants for the right ...

The EasyBloom is a sort of hybrid between a USB stick and a flower. You put the EasyBloom in the ground wherever you’d like to track light, temperature, humidity and soil moisture patterns over 24 ...

Hidden in the picture above is a fake plant. Not only is it a fake plant, but it’s a high tech fake plant, complete with USB port and soil sampling technology like that used in the Mars rover! The ...

Are you not sure what type of plants will do best in your garden? Are your seedlings not thriving? If so, the EasyBloom Plant Sensor Plus by Black & Decker ($40, plus optional $4 per month or $25 per ...

A San Francisco company has cultivated a way for plants to report what they need and where they need to be planted. "I've really been a self-taught gardener," says Carol Cohen of Pleasanton. Cohen is ...

PlantSense rides to the rescue of us plant killers (it's estimated that we off a third of our plants in the year after we buy them). Its new gizmo, the EasyBloom Plant Sensor, soaks up information ...

Okay, maybe we stretched reality a bit too far with the title. But your mind tends to make these assumptions once it grasps the sheer awesomeness of PlantSense’s revolutionary new product, EasyBloom.

"I just have always liked being outside. I like the interplay of the different colors and the different textures," said Graham. Lara shovels and weeds by hand, but you can now find gadgets that ...

Ask, and ye shall receive. I wrote in a column in The Sun on my favorite garden tools that I was itching to try the EasyBloom Plant Sensor. Stick it in the ground, come back 24 hours later, plug it ...

PlantSense combines a USB gadget with temperature, light, and humidity sensors, and a Web database to help you find the right plant for the right place.