{"id":428287,"date":"2026-01-23T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/428287\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:33:11","slug":"nintendo-wants-to-plant-a-talking-flower-in-your-home-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/428287\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Wants to Plant a Talking Flower in Your Home in March"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nintendo’s music-infused Alarmo clock<\/a> came out more than a year ago and there’s a new home companion from the always-unpredictable Nintendo this spring. This time it’s a chatty home flower buddy, arriving March 12. It’s $35<\/a>, which is a fraction of what Alarmo costs, but is this talking flower going to help you wake up as reliably? Probably not, but it’ll make weird comments all day long.<\/p>\n

Talking Flower was teased last year and full details have cropped up today on Nintendo Talking Flower, a talking re-creation of the helpful\/annoying\/charming flowers that popped up all over the place in the Super Mario Wonder<\/a> game. It’s a little trumpet-headed potted flower that talks at you, not with you.<\/p>\n

The flower doesn’t have a screen or a microphone. It just talks. Sometimes it just says things twice an hour, but it can also be sort of helpful: It can remind you of bedtimes, tell the time, indicate room temperature, or act like an alarm clock. Nintendo’s pre-order page says “it will announce the hour, (mostly accurately.” Talking Flower is an unreliable narrator, it seems.<\/p>\n

There’s only one button on Talking Flower, which either triggers more random comments or can silence the thing for a while by pressing and holding for two seconds. (Good news, parents.) But there’s also a “music mode” that summons the Mario Wonder music track from the game, and then pressing the button makes the flower say more things to the music.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s weird that the flower has a thermometer inside, but hey, that’s Nintendo — it doesn’t look like specific temperatures are noted, but it might say “it’s colder today!” Also weird is trying to understand how this flower relates to Alarmo, a purely bed-focused Nintendo home product. You could put the flower anywhere, for any purpose. It’s a collectible. And, most likely, get freaked out by it randomly talking out of nowhere.<\/p>\n

And again, now that Nintendo’s an entertainment company as focused on theme parks and films<\/a> as game consoles and games, something like a talking flower makes sense. Seasonal souvenirs are Nintendo’s bread and butter, and at least this one’s closer to the price of an Amiibo than Alarmo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo’s music-infused Alarmo clock came out more than a year ago and there’s a new home companion from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-428287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}