Future Gadgets for the Home

The DEA, will be paying them a visit with the spike in their utilities.

for growing lettuce??

Yes, they do not stand for unauthorized growers, especially the future lettuce tax of 2014 is passed.

You can build your own using an Arduino plant watering system for a lot less than $6000. It can also, with relay "shield", handle the lights easily.

$6,000, that's can be a lot of vegetables...... and not one seed planted yet.

Well, in Colorado, Washington and states with legal medical pot I see a brisk market.

I gave up cultivating, and smoking, herbs long ago, but I hear it's easy to get a "green" card these days.

The growers in Northern CA want it to be illegal.

All of this legalization is killing the profit motive. One would think that we would have learned something from prohibition.

Now the kids are going directly to bathtub meth.

"Prices for the consumer model start at US$2,200 - your appetite for greens will determine how quickly it pays for itself." Youch. A head of lettuce nominally priced at $2.20, X 1000. Baby greens take 30 days, your appetite for greens will not speed the process! The dishwasher sized model has two trays for the sake of argument, able to produce $2.20 worth of greens each in 30 days. Still that is 500 months to pay for the machine, that's more than 41 years!!!

Please correct me if my math is wrong, I'd love to have one of these snazzy lookin things.

Al Gore approves of this nonsense.

Al Gore is good! I am the evil one, making misleading claims, not reckoning the cut-and-come-again method of growing greens, which allows five harvests per three month cycle... not just three! Trashing this great product for nothing!!

The real figure for paying off the dishwasher sized 'consumer' model using 'cut and come again' greens is a mere 300 months or 25 years. Mea culpa.

Check out the economy model, below, with about the same production area but soil not hydroponic. Light fixture $17 and bulbs $8 (last 2 years) total $25. Lights on and off, water etc: manual. 5 minutes a day. Assuming the same value for greens $2.20 per tray, the fixture has more than paid for itself in 4 months.

Leaving out a few operating costs, just to be misleading... Pls don't call the lettuce police....

Hey guys, time for choir practice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come on over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10-4, Party at Lyn's

Is it just me, or after reading through these comments do you guys have a severe case of the munchies, too? I could use some cheetos right now.

I wouldn't attempt this.

If they are willing to smash in the doors of former CIA agents, the rest of us slobs wouldn't stand a chance.

http://www.plamero.com/2013/03/swat-raids-home-over-hydroponic-equipment-purchase-finds-tomatoes-and-squash

Maybe our government agencies have too much information.

Ya think?

Considering that this home was raided, based on the credit card purchase of a light and a small water pump, I'd say that they're getting a little overzealous.

Not to mention, that I don't think they have a right to track credit card purchases, without a warrant.

Information? yah, we got information, what kind of information would you like..... We're running a special today for bad information!

Then there's the times that they have a legitimate bust, and they get the address wrong.

every now and then you'l read a story about people that come home and their house is just gone, nothing but a cement pad or basement left.......oopps, wrong address on the demo order

Looking through the smokey haze ...

1. A micro dehumidifier for instant freeze dried, long life edibles (and smokeables?)
2. Desk top plastic chipper plus filament producer with built in 3D printer.
3. Gutter downpipe water filter & micro turbine for clean drinking water & torch recharge.
4. Electric food squasher / meat tenderiser (linear action vs food chopping in a blender).
5. Automated ink pen refiller (and pen) vs throw away biros & one use pencils.
6. Fresh bread refresher (air, oil & water injection?) vs toasting that shortens the process.
7. Online shopping delivery and acceptance box by the front door system.