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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Well, wouldn't you know it? That PlantSense prototype we peeked around this time two years ago has seemingly found the fundage to start up production, and at long last the revamped product is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here's her review: The EasyBloom is designed to be placed directly into the ground. It will determine which plants will thrive in a specific spot in your yard or home; diagnose an ailing plant so you ...

Here’s a gadget that can make a green thumb out of anyone. How many times have you received a plant for maybe a new job, housewarming or your living room, only to have it die a couple of months later?

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.

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.