The PlantaForm Indoor Smart Garden looks like it belongs aboard the Enterprise

9 hours ago 1

plantaform smart garden ces 2025 img 6268

Imagine having fresh vegetables and herbs all throughout the year, no matter how cold the weather is. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? At CES 2025, a device that looks straight out of the space age makes that a possibility. The PlantaForm Indoor Smart Garden is a fully enclosed system that uses fogponics (rather than aeroponics or hydroponics) to grow plants, and that means it uses a lot less water than traditional gardening methods.

It’s both environmentally- and space-friendly. The system solves one of the biggest issues with other smart gardens: the grow lights. While almost every smart garden uses artificial lighting to accelerate growth, the lights need to remain on for anywhere from eight to 16 hours per day. If the garden is in your living room, bedroom, or another space, it becomes uncomfortably bright and sometimes too loud when the water flows — but they can work as an effective wake-up alarm in a pinch. The PlantaForm is enclosed with tinted glass that greatly reduces the brightness and makes it much more compatible with a smaller home.

Fogponics works by delivering a fine mist straight to the roots. Since the plant doesn’t need to expend as much energy to obtain nutrients, you get faster growth and higher-quality vegetables as a result. There’s no soil involved; instead, the seeds are placed in a pod of rockwool. They’ll be covered by a small plastic dome. When the plant sprouts and the leaves reach the dome, just pop it off and set it aside.

Plants grow from pre-made kits that are roughly $30 each. As for what you can grow, PlantaForm offers lettuce mixes, cherry tomato mixes, and even edible flowers for use in cocktails. You don’t need a green thumb, either; this smart garden is able to grow no matter how bad a gardener you might be. The app walks you through the process, guiding you each step of the way. By the way, the seeds used are non-GMO and pesticide-free.

Please enable Javascript to view this content

Even the packaging is designed with the environment in mind, so this is one gadget you can feel good about using. It’s just large enough in diameter to fit on an end table but is somewhat tall (but not nearly as tall as the Gardyn). You won’t want to put it on the coffee table — it’ll most likely block your view. Available in both black and white, you can opt for whichever style best fits your home.

The PlantaForm Smart Garden and its app.

You can pick up one of these futuristic smart gardens for yourself for $500. The PlantaForm is one of the most interesting smart gardens we’ve ever seen and improves upon a niche field of technology in tangible, noteworthy ways — and that’s why we also awarded it one of our Best of CES 2025 awards.

Patrick Hearn

Patrick Hearn writes about smart home technology like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, smart light bulbs, and more. If it's a…

Tineco shows off three new ways to vacuum, steam, and clean your floors at CES 2025

The Tineco Floor One S9 Artist Steam being used under a couch.

Tineco showcased three products at CES 2025, giving you three fancy new ways to vacuum, steam, and clean your floors. The Floor One S9 Artist Steam was the highlight of the trio, as it can produce steam to tackle tough stains, features a lay-flat design, and will automatically adjust its settings to best deal with the challenge at hand.

The Tineco Floor One S9 Artist Steam was designed to streamline all aspects of your floor cleaning chores. It produces steam (which hits temperatures up to 264 degrees Fahrenheit) to quickly remove common stains produced by ketchup, chocolate syrup, pasta, and other household hazards, It can also lay flat to reduce its height to less than 13 centimeters -- giving you a chance to reach under furniture where larger cleaners can't fit. Along with automatically changing settings based on the dirt levels detected by its sensors, it benefits from Aurora AI Lights that change color dynamically depending on the cleaning status.

Today only: This blender and food processor is $100 off

The inclusions of the Bella Pro MasterBlend 3-in-1 Prep System blender.

If you're building up your countertop appliance collection, why go for a simple blender when you can get the Bella Pro MasterBlend 3-in-1 Prep System for a very affordable price of just $70? That's all you have to pay for this amazing kitchen device, but you'll need to hurry. The hours are counting down for this $100 discount from Best Buy on its original price of $70, so there's no time to waste if you want to make this purchase. Proceed with it right now, as you may regret missing out when the offer expires.

Why you should buy the Bella Pro MasterBlend 3-in-1 Prep System
The Bella Pro MasterBlend 3-in-1 Prep System is a 64-ounce blender, 40-ounces food processor, and a 24-ounce personal blender -- all in one device for your kitchen. It's designed so that you can easily switch between these modes by swapping the various components, which is important, as pointed out by our blender versus food processor comparison -- blenders are meant to be used with liquids to make smoothies and protein shakes, while food processers are meant to be used for more labor-intensive tasks such as shredding ingredients and mixing dough.

Eureka makes big mopping improvements with the J15 Max Ultra

The Eureka J15 Max Ultra with its new side brush.

Eureka is responsible for some of the best robot vacuums on the market, and its lineup has grown even more exciting with the reveal of the Eureka J15 Max Ultra at CES 2025 . Capable of producing a staggering 22,000 Pa of suction and loaded with unique new mopping features, it’s poised to become one of the most versatile robot vacuums of the year.

The J15 Max Ultra builds on the success of last year’s J15 Pro Ultra, which offered cool features like FlexiRazer technology to cut through tangles and a self-cleaning base station to reduce manual maintenance tasks. Now, the J15 Max Ultra is upgrading its vision sensor technology -- ensuring it mops better than anything else in the Eureka lineup. Dubbed “IntelliView AI 2.0,” the detection capabilities of the J15 Max Ultra are now sophisticated enough to detect transparent liquids for an improved mopping experience.

Read Entire Article