It is a strange, strange world.  For those without a green thumb and who have terrible luck with houseplants, a group of graduate students at New York University has created a way for your plants to phone home and request water. 

The project dubbed "Botanicalls" works by using moisture sensors in the soil that send a signal across local wireless networks into a gateway that places a call to your number. 

The students said, "We hope that the system will help people learn how to take better care of their plants."  To help this happen and make getting a call from your plant a little more fun, Botanicalls has even developed messages to match the plant’s characteristics.  For example, Scottish Moss, which isn’t really from Scotland, calls in with a fake Scottish accent when it needs water. 

To ensure that users don’t feel like they have a clingy, needy plant on their hands, plants call back after you water them to thank you for taking care of them. They will also call to complain if they got some water but not enough. 

Although the system will not be available for another six months, Bonanicalls has already seen a lot of interest from businesses and homeowners. 

Hopefully by the time Botanicalls hits the market, they will have a wide variety of voices and personalities available for plants, including celebrity voices like Snoop Dogg or Sean Connery, or allow you to program the voices yourself. 

Let’s face it. Having plants would have to be more fun if every time after water them you got a call from your plant, singing the first line of "I Feel Good" by James Brown.