I keep forgetting to water the plants in my apartment, so having either a phone call alert or twitter text would be a helpful reminder to tell me the status of this poor neglected greenery. I saw a demonstration of botanicalls at the Make Magazine party during NYC Internet week. The way botanicalls works is by using an Arduino electronics board that connects to your laptop and moisture probes made from nails that you stick in the soil to detect if the plant needs to be watered. The plant then sends out a Twitter alerting you its status as being thirsty, over watered, or just right. Check out the botanicalls Twitter DIY project, so your leafy friend will never go thirsty again.