 HotSpot Shield service makes your internet browsing safer, more secure, and fully private. Click now to learn more. Welcome to my unboxing and overview of the Parrot Flower Power. What the hell is this, you might be asking yourself? And what it is, is a very innovative little product. As the wise Sheldon Cooper once said, penny everything is better with Bluetooth. Now you can use Bluetooth to grow your plants. Right now compatibility is limited to iOS devices only that support Bluetooth Smart, but compatibility may be extended to other platforms in the future. However, it does need Bluetooth Smart in order to function. It has to be very power efficient in order for something like this to make sense. The flower power is meant to be planted close to an indoor or outdoor plant. It is water resistant, so that is IPX5 and IPX7 certification, and features sensors, which I am trying to extract it from the box. There we go. All right. It features sensors for sunlight, so that one's right here. Soil moisture, which is actually very, look at this eco-friendly cardboard packaging. I love it. Even the little like fake planter box that comes in is like a piece of paper, and then there's like a little packet that looks like seeds or something with the instructions in it. It's adorable. Those parrot guys, they so funny. Anyway, sunlight, soil moisture. I'm going to stop buying time for myself to get this thing out of here. Soil moisture, fertilizer levels, and finally, air temperature are all detected by this thing. So it is designed for people like me who allow things like that to happen to every plant that they touch. I don't know how dead that thing is. Even my wife had a fairly brown thumb for the longest time until she finally had one flower, an orchid, that she managed to keep alive for an extended period of time, which I plan to steal and see if I can then replicate that feat by using this. It sends push notifications to your phone, and you set it up by selecting from a database of more than 6,000 plants, trees, and vegetables, and it'll basically tell you stuff like, oh hey, you could more optimally position this plant in order to get the right amount of sunlight, or hey, this plant needs water, you're three days late, and cool stuff like that. So without further ado, I have to go retrieve that flower, which might be a bit of a problem. All right, so I have a dastardly plan to test the flower power. I'm going to head home and I'm going to steal my wife's plant. Okay, I don't think she sees me. Shh. Okay, gotta switch to night vision mode. That doesn't seem to be working very well. Oh, bollocks, I guess I could just turn on a light. Ah, yes. Apparently night vision mode still needs a little bit of light. Kids. All right, there's the victim. The flower that I'm stealing now. Do do do do do do. Putting it by the door. Taking it with me tomorrow. She will never know. Do do do do do. Why are you taking my orchid? I don't have your orchid. I don't know what you're talking about. This is her orchid. I'm taking it so I can test the plant monitor app thing. All right, so I have returned alive from my mission here, guys. And I've also figured out how to install the battery in this thing. So positive terminal down. Then it's got a nice little rubber seal here. You go ahead and pop that bad boy into place. There you go. Twist it so it can, you know, stay. Look at that green thing goes on. So what I'm going to do is because I don't own an iPad mini or, you know, an iPhone 4S or an iPad third gen is I'm actually going to borrow one to set this up. Then in the time that I'm waiting for mine to come in, we will give it about a week and see if the plant manages to stay alive. So we're just going to stab it into the plant here, which hopefully won't damage it. And there you have it. It is installed. Wish me luck, because if this thing dies in the week that we are testing this, I will die too. So I think the conclusion for this is actually fairly simple. Now, I've had this plant running on the flower power since. Wow, actually, it's been just over a month. And so you can actually see it gives you a little handy little graphs here. You can look at live data. You can look at daily data, weekly data. So you can break down things like sunlight in terms of how it's doing for light per day versus per week. So you can see patterns in the daylight over even as much as a month, three months, six months or a year. And I think the conclusion here is that while the flower power can tell you all of this information, you can actually see the plant isn't in very good shape. There's nothing it can do to make you actually deal with it. So in this case, you can see the water level when I got the plant was around well around 15 percent. And then it dropped all the way down to about five percent, which looks like it might have floored out, which might even be the lowest that it can measure. And then I just kind of didn't do anything with it for like about 10 or 15 days in there. And so, yeah, is it in the greatest condition? No. But is that the flower powers fault? No, it actually seems to work incredibly well. The only thing that it didn't track for me was fertilizer, which makes sense because I don't have any fertilizer in here at all. So there you go, guys. If you're looking for a supremely awesome gift for the gardener in your family and you're willing to spend 60 bucks for something that helps you at least know how to take care of your plants, even if it doesn't help you be any less absent minded about actually doing anything. I mean, it does give you notifications. OK, does help you be less absent minded. OK, but doesn't help you be less lazy. Then there you go, guys, the flower power looks like a very, very cool little gadget. As always, guys, don't forget to like this video if you liked it. Dislike it if you dislike it. Leave a comment and let me know what you think, not just about the flower power. I'd love to hear if you guys can think of someone in your family that would make sense for. And of course, there's a link to where to buy it in the video description. But, you know, what do you think of just generally connected items like this? Are you OK having connected stuff all over your house? Or would you rather we just like, you know, treat, you know, just learn how to take care of your plants and just do it? Love to hear what you guys think about that. As always, guys, also don't forget to subscribe and thank you for watching.