Tag: GARDENING

Gardening is usually backbreaking work. Planting, weeding and harvesting require physical exertion and near constant squatting or bending over. Thanks to the strangely named Wunda Products, there may be hope for the chronically lazy who also dream of having their own homegrown produce. The Wunda Weeder consists of a simple metal frame with a platform for a face-down, reclining person, a headrest ...

City-dwellers that we are, we'd be the first to admit our relative ignorance when it comes to the art of digging holes. But thanks to Verizon, we now know how not to go about filling them. Jill Knapp was recently digging around her yard in Delmar, NY, when she noticed a piece of plastic sticking out of the ground. Intrigued, she dug around some more, and eventually unearthed an entire cache of ...

Thanks to a scientific breakthrough, you can now grow plants without physically watering them. No, we're not talking about flood irrigation. Or sprinklers. Or hydroponic systems. Okay, so maybe "breakthrough" isn't the right word, here. "Dorky," though, is the perfect term for Click & Grow, the electronic flowerpot that automatically hydrates plants with its aeroponic system -- doing, in ...

Even in our ever-accelerating, technologically turbulent world, we can count on some things to remain the same. Baby boomers, the generation that virtually invented short-lived trends, experienced another one with Facebook. After joining in droves last year, they started dropping from it like flies this spring. At the other end of the generational spectrum, teenagers continue to do really dumb ...

Summer is, give or take a couple of weeks, here. That means BBQs, baseball, new love and -- of course -- yardwork. Given our preference for keyboards and joysticks over rakes and hoes, we sought out the best gizmos to minimize our outdoor chores. Next >> ...

Here's one for you...what do you get when you take Japanese ingenuity, cow dung, four-wheeled transportation, and a bio-fuel processing plant and mix them all together? Why a poo-powered golf cart, of course. Okay, Yamaha's experimental golf cart runs on methane, but that gas is developed from cow dung. This magical process takes place in Japan's Kartori region at a lovely sounding 'burg called ...

Undergraduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are currently developing a team of robots that they hope will be able to streamline agricultural labor, USA Today reports. A year ago, Professor Daniela Rus, who heads MIT's Distributed Robotics Lab, challenged her students to build a "distributed robotic garden" during this most recent Fall semester, the second half of ...

For those of you looking to prove just how green your thumb really is, have a gander at the Timelapse Garden Video Camera. Offered up at the always intriguing Hammacher Schlemmer, this weatherproof garden tool engages in the tedious task of taking snapshots of your flora in customizable intervals and then weaving them together into a single 1,280 x 1,024 AVI video. The lens can focus as close as ...