1. What kind of music should go with which kind of plant? Roses for Guns N Roses? Potted plants for Grateful Dead music? 2. Do we really want plants that make funny noises? I've got coworkers for that. 3. Do the plants really like the music? Has anyone done a survey? 4. Is Slashdot really the proper forum for this posting?
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Re:A Few Thoughts
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Anonymous Coward
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I'm pretty sure I know which plant goes with the Grateful Dead.
Re:A Few Thoughts
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zijus
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Is Slashdot really the proper forum for this posting?
You don't like plant singing at you ? I feel it's a pretty poetic invention. Makes me smile. Makes the omelete finely. Immagine you garden filed with strawberies plant, slowly growing year after year, expending the music. Or an aple tree growing into your nasty neighboor garden. And then play Simple Pleasure of Boby Mc Ferrin at him. OoooO yeeea!
What happens when you get a plant tuned up just how you like it, and it dies? I mean, I have been using my old-fashioned Sony speakers for like 15 years now, and they are still working. Unless you hook it up to a bonsai tree with some staying power, how useful is it if you need to change your speakers every time they die?
1. What kind of music should go with which kind of plant? Roses for Guns N Roses? Potted plants for Grateful Dead music?
Lower the frequency, bigger the speaker, so
Banana plants for sub-woofers, rose plants for midrange, cherry blossoms for treble.
> 1. What kind of music should go with which kind of plant?
The possibilities are endless!
Imagine playing Ryuichi Sakamoto through your Bonsai tree. Or better yet, play Operation Ivy through your ivy! Oh, and play Kiss through your tulips! Randy Rhodes through your rhododendron! SheDaisy through your dasies! Petula Clark through the petunias! Biggie through the begonias! Yellow Magic Orchestra through your yellow orchids! Blue Man Group through your bluebells!
Oh, and through your amorphophallus titanum?
Cannibal Corpse.
okay, I'll stop now.
Re:A Few Thoughts
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Jahf
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If by 4) you mean your post, you should probably have asked that of yourself before posting. If by 4) you mean the article... heck yes. "News for Nerds". No one (who is in charge) said/. was all about Linux or the 'net. I think using plants as speakers is techno-gadget nerderific... don't you?
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And according to Koga, music is also good for the plants, which are invigorated by the constant musical vibes.
Though I like this invention, I dont think its appropirate to say domething like this at this early stage.
A genetic engineering study should be carried out:
1) A large cluster of seeds A, and its clones, B should be planted.
1)Repeat step 1 in a number of different locations under the exact same conditions.(or as close to as possible - measurement of ammonia and nitrates etc in the soil.. )
2)A is treated with the musical resonance...
B is not.
3)Afterabout 10 years (or more) a large number of aesthetic appreciating people (botanists) vote to decide if A is hideous or not. If not, allow the technology to be used.....
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Re:A Few Thoughts
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Anonymous Coward
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Your plant knowledge scares me.
Re:A Few Thoughts
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Anonymous Coward
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that would be moldy rye, since it was originally derived from ergot.
Re:A Few Thoughts
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Anonymous Coward
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That is true!
The ergot fungus does contain natural Lysergic Acid.
So do morning glory seeds and Hawaiian wood rose seeds!
Not to be stereotypical...
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radiumsoup
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"And according to Koga, music is also good for the plants, which are invigorated by the constant musical vibes. "
I suppose that depends on the musical tastes of the plant... death metal may be good when played on a Venus fly trap, but not so much on a petunia.
Silly Japanese
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BinaryWolf
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They could of saved some time and ordered the sound bug.
Re:Silly Japanese
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Anonymous Coward
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>Turns any hard, glossy surface into a sound source
Apparently you can't use that sound bug for plants.
One of my coworkers had one, it sorta works, but it's more of a toy than anything you'd want to use for serious speakers, unless you happen to have huge plate glass windows to stick it to, and even then I'm not sure how good it would sound.
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Not to mention that they are pretty cheaply made. I've had 3 of them. All broke within a week. One came broken the others had tabs inside break off so that the suction cup falls out. I'm sick of paying for the return shipping, so I'm just leaving it.
Re:Silly Japanese
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Anonymous Coward
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wow imagine if you plugged those into the Pope-Mobile, he would have the boomingest system for cruisin' th' piazza ever!
so lets see now i guess any audio source would do, so the plants could speak wonder how long before the tv is showing home movie footage of freaked out kids and grandma's. not to mention upsetting a few vegan's but what would you have your plants say
Just think, combine it with some of those amplifiers you attach via suction to a flat surface on your windows, and you can have a totally rocking greenhouse!
was played at just the right frquency that the plant leaves shattered?! that would be cool. That would also be the only good use I would get out of it. (I guess I am not part of the target audience)
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Sounds like the body speaker...
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Shoeler
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Or was it the "skull vibrator" ie head speker?
Regardless, this sounds like it needs to be in the "why-the-hell-would-you-waste-your-money-on-it" category. Those fake-rock speakers are one helluva lot cheaper, and sound quite good.
you can imagine someone going in their greenhouse to give their plants a pep talk and then the plants start to give them backchat.
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This requires killing the plant
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Blastrogath
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Unless I'm mistaken, most people who talk to their plants don't want to cut them and put them in a vase or jar.
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Re:This requires killing the plant
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artemis67
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Oh yeah, like vibrating them thousands of times a second would be good for them anyway...:-P
Re:This requires killing the plant
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shokk
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In other news, a German company has come up with the idea for using human skulls as cereal bowls and human skin for lamp shades. I wonder what's in the soap?
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Re:This requires killing the plant
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most people... except AJ Crowly
First thing i'm getting mine to say:
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anothy
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Each report says the plants can transmit sounds, but all are vague enough to make me hypothesize the sounds are muffled and probably unintelligible.
If the plant speaker could reproduce the sound accurately, however, there would be some interesting applications. I would couple the speaker w/video recognition - then I could have the plants "yell" at unwanted visitors at my house.
Yea Right the poor Cannabis plant when hearing Pink Floyd will go into a Panic. "OH NO!!! I am going to be up rooted and taken away from my food and water source. Then wrapped in paper blocking off all sun light and then burned to death." For God sake people stop smoking Cannabis, you are torturing the poor plant and scaring its offspring. It is probably saying to its young "Increase your Pontancy so your tormentors in the future will no be so unmotivated that they will not pick your children."
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This is making plants speakers (not amplifiers)
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agurk
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This is clearly stated in the last link:
"The system, comprising an amplifier, vase and an acrylic resin cylinder, makes flowers' petals and leaves vibrate and transmit sounds, just as the paper cones of stereo speakers vibrate, the two said."
So the system has an amplifier and the plant has the role of loudspeaker. I was hoping for a powersaving alternative to my amplifier, but I better stick to it a little longer.
Re:This is making plants speakers (not amplifiers)
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So the system has an amplifier and the plant has the role of loudspeaker. I was hoping for a powersaving alternative to my amplifier, but I better stick to it a little longer.
The article seems to suggest that the plants are being made to 'amplify' the signal. Although I guess there could be some mechanism here working that I'm unaware of, as it stands it looks to me like the pedals are just converting the energy into sound.
Early in the morning I can't sleep /
I can't work and I can't eat /
I've been drunk all day, can't concentrate /
Maybe I'm making a big mistake /
Caught me down like a killer shark /
It's like a railroad running right through my heart /
Jekyll and hyde the way I behave /
Feel like I'm running on an empty gauge /
Oh no not again /
It hurts so good /
I don't understand /
Infatuation.
Is that whey you play crappy Rod Stewart music through the plant?
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Re:Falling
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Anonymous Coward
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HHGTTG quote's effect when said that discretely.... minimal. Ah well : )
He just doesn't understand... But then, if we understood exactly WHY the bowl of petunias said that, we'd probably know a lot more about the universe in general.
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Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
For the trixsters amongst us...
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This has some amazing potential for pratical jokes. Imagine going through a greenhouse and hearing a rattlsnake piped through a Plantplifier.
Oh yes... Halloween will be fun!
~D
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Re:For the trixsters amongst us...
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Oh yes... Halloween will be fun!
I'd rig the garden hedge up and loop the heartbeat from Dark Side of the Moon. See if any brave ickle trick-or-treaters dare make it to my front door!
Did anyone else here get the intense desire to either play a "nature sounds" CD through their potted office-plant, or just the sound of leaves rustling slightly?
Imagine the hours of fun as the boss looks for that damn draft that he knows just HAS to be in that corner.
I think I've just convinced myself to get one once they come to market here. : )
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New line for Hitchhiker's
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The+I+Shing
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Zaphod could say "Holy Zarquon's singing plants!" Nah, the "singing fish" line was more surreal.
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Re:New line for Hitchhiker's
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AndroidCat
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You don't think falling out of a giant marble cup 14 miles in the air, held up by art, was surreal enough? Belgium!
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"The inventor of the gadget, Keiji Koga, said: "We are finally able to experience plants and flowers with all five of our natural senses."
You mean I have to eat the plant after it plays music for me?
Wouldnt the "right" frequency vary significantly from plant to plant? Or are they planning on providing a fake plant?
Re:Two questions
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You will have to consult the compatibility chart to verify that your plant is supported. There may be a downloadable firmware update to support more plants in the future.
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I'm more puzzled about why you'd use it to play music if you can only hear one frequency.
Ok read this please
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Anonymous Coward
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fark posted this a few hours ago so there is already a lot more comments. And something tells me 90% of the posts modded up will be +Whatever,Funny. So you may as well go to Fark.com and see it done right:)
/please don't mark this informative you brain dead mods, and you know which ones you are, if anything this is funny.
Re:Ok read this please
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Meanwhile on Fark:
[IRONIC] Plants used as speakers. France surrenders. Your plant wants steak.
"Nice use of the irony tag."
"Hardly ironic."
"In s0vi3t Russia..."
"Hey, Boobies!"
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"THIS IS NOT IRONY!"
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Re:Ok read this please
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I can understand ultra-sonic sounds being converted to audiable ones under certain sinarios, but I can't see where petals and leaves get the power from to aplify audio waves, thus I'm highly sceptical that the device is anything more than previous speakers which use any medium to which there attached as a cone.
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Re:What artists to the plants enjoy?
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AndroidCat
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Wrong. Genetically modified crops: DEVO
No. Spudboys are always looking for a real tomato. How about Wendy Carlos?
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Re:What artists to the plants enjoy?
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Scroatzilla
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Rubber trees: Gene Simmons, Kiss
Re:What artists to the plants enjoy?
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I think flowers would be into blues- you know, the kind where they use a wa-wa petal. I suppose they could just listen to Tripping Daisy or the Posies, however. Or maybe Guns 'n Roses when they have an appetite for getting their leaves destroyed.
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Re:What artists to the plants enjoy?
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"Vegetables: Boy-bands and Brittney Spears"
Funny, I thought "fruits" would have been the appropriate answer.
So if I hook up my Casio keyboard to a pot plant, does this mean I will end up with an awesome photosynthesizer ?
I also have a great 'geranium diode' joke, but I'll save that for when the current thread needs rectifying.
I totally thought you were going somewhere else with that sentence.
If "slept" is used in that connotation the sounds can still be amazing.
What's more intersting to me - enjoying flowers with all five senses? I agree on seeing, smelling, touching and now even hearing flowers, but last time I tried to eat a rose petal, it tasted quite awful.
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You picked the wrong kind. Try these. Many varieties are quite tasty, though they're much more popular in Japan than the West in my experience.
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Re:oh?
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Anonymous Coward
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I'm guessing this guy's never slept in a tall pine forest. The sounds are amazing.
Yeah, maybe, if you like nature. Actually even a small child can tell you that the sound of pine trees is boring. If it wasn't boring, people would be buying "sounds of a pine forest at night" CDs.
Re:oh?
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Anonymous Coward
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I've been to Japan a couple times and never've eaten flowers - sounds hard to believe they'd use it for anything other than decoration! On the other hand, plenty vegetables for Chinese people will leave them on (although you don't specifically eat the flowers) and I had a vacation to Turkey where they eat rose-petal jam. It tasted kind of soap-ish I thought.
Yeah, it probably WOOD KNOT work as well as advertised. We should all LEAF it alone until someone can test the technology.
Call me a troll if you want, but, you know, STICKS and stones... it would only prove to me that you can't see the FOREST for the TREES, you LUMBERing oaf.
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Re:It'll never work.
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Anonymous Coward
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It'll work once the engineers WEED out all the bugs in the system...
Re:It'll never work.
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Anonymous Coward
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Who knows, maybe one day it will be a FERTILE FIELD for further GROWTH.
Meanwhile jay and silent bob are celebrating...
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Shadow+of+Eternity
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For some reason i think there is going to be a flood of websites with the proper calibration for playing Pink Floyd through a cannabis plant.
to the japanese: "Meditate and relax in the serene gardens of nature while listening to the calming sounds of music through a plant"
to the americans: "Not since Dinner and a Movie has there been such a good combination. Smoke and dance at the same time with half the equipment! grow your own subwoofer!"
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Play some old soul using the plants that grew from the grapes you threw out a few years ago - you really can say you "heard it on the grape vine"...
Please - if you're going to throw tomatoes can you make sure they're GM free ones...
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.......hmmmm, it seems that even wrapping it in the "URL tag" doesn't remove that space from the filename in the topmost URL. A bug in the new Slashcode maybe? Or is that supposed to happen(???)
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obligatory singing bush
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A Philosophical Question...
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sarcastro73
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If a tree plays Elvis in the forest and there's no one to hear it, is he still alive?
Reading topic without reading story
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Imagine desk, computer, chair, and two big power plants on both sides used to play heavy metal music in stereo. Even better, imagine 5.1 setup: 5 power plants around desk and one underground (nuclear one?).
There can't be an universal frequency for all plants so you must calibrate the 'loudspeakers' depending on the plant you're playing trough. And when the plant grows. Guess what?... Recalibrate! And even if you calibrate it like a jedi master the sound will be more like the Ents from The Two Towers than from a speaker.
Re:Our Perennial Overlords...
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No. Your RIAA/Napster/Burpee licence only allows these music files to be played on certain select annuals. The plant DRM prevents transfer to other species.
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Smells like garden spirit
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Al+Dimond
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Reminds me of a thing I saw net-side a few years ago, which was a speaker housed in a cardboard box that could be folded up and taken anywhere. Supposedly it sounded decent too, I can't find the link though.
I guess I don't know quite as much about accoustics as I should, but it seems like most anything could be made to effectively vibrate the air? I'd love to have a computer case from which the sound just "eminates"... or maybe, on a less geeky note, just a new take on the singing tie...
Re:Smells like garden spirit
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Al+Dimond
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And there's also a homemade trick my old physics teacher showed me to build a garbage can into a speaker with some magnets and coils. Sounds allright, better if your can isn't all dented up like mine was.
Ho-hum
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Anonymous Coward
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So, someone has put together a transducer (probably a piezoelectric one) that is coupled to a flower stem by gravity, and has gone to the bother of determining what the frequency response of the lily is and equalised accordingly. Yeah, I guess it's kind of impressive, but somehow I'm more interested in that circular printer that's on the same page at the CNET Asia link.
Yet another way I can kill my plants. I bet a fikas (sp?) would get pissed and lose its leaves if one of these things were even in the same room as it.
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...as using PLANETS as speakers, which immediately reminded me of Hotblack from the Hitchhiker's Guide. I should read something more mainstream for a change...
Re:Our Perennial Overlords...
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I just found out that you can download an illegally hacked genus ROM file to use the system with poplars.
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new business area
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mr.+spike+2
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We could download or order ringtones for our plants. Most interesting could be ringtones for cactus-type stuff:)
for example cactus vibrating by ice-t track. Or rammstein. it goes better than Celine Dion "my hear will go on".
On the other hand, could playing fast and harsh dnb on plants be harmful to them?:)
made into a microphone?
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Anonymous Coward
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If the system is reversible, then plants will be banned from all secure areas.
"Shhh... I think the phycus is listening."
Does anybody think of the chi^Wplants?
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r00zky
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Does this require dead plants, or it works in the alive ones? If the second case is true, does this harm the plant? or stimutates its growth or is indiferent?
Why are the articles so short in details?
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This has got to be...
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Anonymous Coward
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the MOST RETARDED invention, ever. EVER.
Ok, well, it might not be the MOST retarded, but it's darn close.
Zen question
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Anonymous Coward
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So if a tree in the forest is playing music and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
thanks to a Japanese invention that turns petals and leaves into amplifiers.
It turns petals and leaves into _speakers_, not amplifiers. The amplifier is the part that takes a signal and makes it louder, and the speaker converts the energy from the amplifier to audible signal.
It doesn't turn the plants into amplifiers, it uses parts of the plants as speaker cones: they've built a system that shakes plants. I wouldn't think the frequency response and dynamic range of a shaking plant would be very impressive.
Uh, no. The story submission, as usual, is brain-damaged. It doesn't turn petals and leaves into amplifiers, it turns them into the surface area of a driver whose components include the plant and some sort of device to make it vibrate - a transducer?
Having the petals and leaves function as an amplifier is some vorlon shit. But, nice try.
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Lets form a new society...
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Anonymous Coward
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PETP - People for ethical treatment of plants.
This is cruel its lie using a person's nose and ears as amplifiers, while making sure his mouth is firmly secured.
YOU SUCCEED IT
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Anonymous Coward
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You win a toaster.
Re:Lyric Miscomprehension
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Anonymous Coward
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I can see this turning into a marketing ploy for various high-priced farms.
All grapefruit are tuned to a medley of classical composers from Bach to Mozart to Brahms 24 hours a day, ensuring you get the happiest fruit available.
Great fruit comes from Happy Trees. Happy Trees come from California Musical Farms.
such missed opportunities
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everyplace
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If only Pauly Shore had this technology for his climactic party in Bio-Dome. It would have saved the movie.
New Scientist Article
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chaosmage42
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I don't know why this article wasn't posted with the main story, but here it is {much longer than the other articles}
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done
Here are photos and a translation.
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higon
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FYI, here is a rough translation about photographs on this page from top to bottom. I think you could find some more interesting stuff from them.
1. Flowers that made loudest sound. They explained the one which has large area and dried surface like a cone paper can make good sound.
2. A diaphragm with magnet and coil. Unlike normal driver unit, this generates wave only to vibrate plants.
3. Inserting flowers into a plastic pipe on the diaphragm to pass vibration throughout plants.
4. Putting more flowers, impacting them into the tube and spleading leaves make sound louder.
5. You're able to feel plants' fine vibration by touching them.
6. Standard model using a diaphragm and an acrylic plastic tube.
7,8. This model has an amp, FM tuner, and power source.
9. This one is with illuminations.
10. Flower vase based model.
11. This planter model was using gum tree as speakers.
12. Attaching stems to a poll to drive vibration.
13,14,15. Monkey dish model. It looks like normal thing, but actually has speaker jacks at the back. It uses a bamboo pipe instead of an acrylic tube to save its appearance.
They also mentioning.
"So far, there isn't accurate data about biological effects on plants. But in our experience, it seems vabration revitalizes plants and expands their lives."
Hi, I'm the Inventor, Keiji Koga...
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You know, I had a crappy pair of speakers and I thought, why not pass along the experience? My plants love the music of Yoko Kanno, PuffyAmiYumi, Pillows, and all other wild and wacky music groups.
Now, sadly, all of my plants are dead and I am still stuck with these crappy speakers. But now all of your plants are dead too! Bwahahahahahaha!!!!
(This made more sense in the original Japanese... well, no actually it didn't...)
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NetBSD
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Anonymous Coward
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Ok but how long until NetBSD is ported to a Ficus?:)
Should be illegal
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Anonymous Coward
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Some research has shown that plants give "communicative" response to various environmental influence. The described "intrusion" may very well cause stress and harm to them. Should be banned untill we know much more about how "intelligent" plants are. Just becouse they don't have "parts" that create audible sound for the human ears, does not mean they don't have the same reactions as animals do, who can express it by voicing their dislike.
Old Science Fair Experiment
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"according to Koga, music is also good for the plants, which are invigorated by the constant musical vibes."
Any one ever do a Science Fair project on the effects of differnt types of music on plants? It would be cool to see an experiment on the effects of different types of music played through the plant with this device. And of course compare the findings to the original experiment.
Ysalamiri, Spaarti cylinders and cloaked asteroids.
And IIRC, the plants on which the droids resided were crazy hypercolour things which were very sensitive to pressure changes and suchwhat. Interesting that this could possibly be done with typical, earth plants.
Re:Lyric Miscomprehension
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astrodawg
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Slashdot Mirror
1. What kind of music should go with which kind of plant? Roses for Guns N Roses? Potted plants for Grateful Dead music?
2. Do we really want plants that make funny noises? I've got coworkers for that.
3. Do the plants really like the music? Has anyone done a survey?
4. Is Slashdot really the proper forum for this posting?
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
"And according to Koga, music is also good for the plants, which are invigorated by the constant musical vibes. " I suppose that depends on the musical tastes of the plant... death metal may be good when played on a Venus fly trap, but not so much on a petunia.
They could of saved some time and ordered the sound bug.
...plants speak to you!
It had to be said.
Although I am dubious about the long term effects of Billy Idol (or KISS for that matter) on my potted pansies. (Potted....nevermind...)
RMW
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Just think, combine it with some of those amplifiers you attach via suction to a flat surface on your windows, and you can have a totally rocking greenhouse!
was played at just the right frquency that the plant leaves shattered?! that would be cool. That would also be the only good use I would get out of it. (I guess I am not part of the target audience)
- Your stupidity got you into this mess, why can't it get you out? -Will Rogers
Or was it the "skull vibrator" ie head speker?
Regardless, this sounds like it needs to be in the "why-the-hell-would-you-waste-your-money-on-it" category. Those fake-rock speakers are one helluva lot cheaper, and sound quite good.
how it works ... IN JAPAN
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you can imagine someone going in their greenhouse to give their plants a pep talk and then the plants start to give them backchat.
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Unless I'm mistaken, most people who talk to their plants don't want to cut them and put them in a vase or jar.
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Each report says the plants can transmit sounds, but all are vague enough to make me hypothesize the sounds are muffled and probably unintelligible.
If the plant speaker could reproduce the sound accurately, however, there would be some interesting applications. I would couple the speaker w/video recognition - then I could have the plants "yell" at unwanted visitors at my house.
What about those huge Cannabis plants, carefully concealed and yet still lining the back wall of your yard? They might like Floyd, I'm thinking.
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This is clearly stated in the last link:
"The system, comprising an amplifier, vase and an acrylic resin cylinder, makes flowers' petals and leaves vibrate and transmit sounds, just as the paper cones of stereo speakers vibrate, the two said."
So the system has an amplifier and the plant has the role of loudspeaker. I was hoping for a powersaving alternative to my amplifier, but I better stick to it a little longer.
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From now on, speakers may smell as good as they sound.
The article seems to suggest that the plants are being made to 'amplify' the signal. Although I guess there could be some mechanism here working that I'm unaware of, as it stands it looks to me like the pedals are just converting the energy into sound.
Yeah, this is really nitpicky.
Well, now I got a singing plant. All I need now are mini plant sunglasses and someone to invent a device to make a plant dance and I'm all set.
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I can remember fooling around using a whoofer as a crude mic -- is is possible to run the operation in reverse?
Gives a whole new meaning to "planting bugs".
A falling plant was reported making a sound remarkably similar to the english sentence: "Oh no, not again."
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This has some amazing potential for pratical jokes. Imagine going through a greenhouse and hearing a rattlsnake piped through a Plantplifier.
Oh yes... Halloween will be fun!
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Did anyone else here get the intense desire to either play a "nature sounds" CD through their potted office-plant, or just the sound of leaves rustling slightly?
Imagine the hours of fun as the boss looks for that damn draft that he knows just HAS to be in that corner.
I think I've just convinced myself to get one once they come to market here. : )
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Zaphod could say "Holy Zarquon's singing plants!" Nah, the "singing fish" line was more surreal.
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"...turns petals and leaves into amplifiers."
So the question remains. When will those bastard trees stop attenuating my wifi signal?
"The inventor of the gadget, Keiji Koga, said: "We are finally able to experience plants and flowers with all five of our natural senses." You mean I have to eat the plant after it plays music for me?
Wouldnt the "right" frequency vary significantly from plant to plant? Or are they planning on providing a fake plant?
fark posted this a few hours ago so there is already a lot more comments. And something tells me 90% of the posts modded up will be +Whatever,Funny. So you may as well go to Fark.com and see it done right :)
/please don't mark this informative you brain dead mods, and you know which ones you are, if anything this is funny.
I can understand ultra-sonic sounds being converted to audiable ones under certain sinarios, but I can't see where petals and leaves get the power from to aplify audio waves, thus I'm highly sceptical that the device is anything more than previous speakers which use any medium to which there attached as a cone.
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Am i just twisted, or does this also remind someone else of the Little Shop of Horrors?! http://www.littleshopofhorrors.com/
Palm trees: Jimmy Buffet
Cannibus: Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd
Vegetables: Boy-bands and Brittney Spears
Grains, Barley, Hops, & Tobacco: Frank Sinatra
Squashes: Smashing Pumpkins
Eggplants: MC Hawking
Genetically modified crops: "Weird" Al
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So if I hook up my Casio keyboard to a pot plant, does this mean I will end up with an awesome photosynthesizer ? I also have a great 'geranium diode' joke, but I'll save that for when the current thread needs rectifying.
I wonder if the constant vibration of the sound resonating through a plant's body will cause any harm to it.
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'The inventor of the gadget, Keiji Koga, said: "We are finally able to experience plants and flowers with all five of our natural senses."'
I'm guessing this guy's never slept in a tall pine forest. The sounds are amazing.
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The sound quality is far too grainy.
For some reason i think there is going to be a flood of websites with the proper calibration for playing Pink Floyd through a cannabis plant. to the japanese: "Meditate and relax in the serene gardens of nature while listening to the calming sounds of music through a plant" to the americans: "Not since Dinner and a Movie has there been such a good combination. Smoke and dance at the same time with half the equipment! grow your own subwoofer!"
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I hereby welcome our new vibrating, singing plant overlord...
Maybe soon to be replaced vibrating, singing dildo...
In US, you can easily buy enough major firearms to wipe out your neighbourhood but a few little fireworks are banned.
...if I turned the amp up to 11?
Plenty of nice pictures, though.
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Play some old soul using the plants that grew from the grapes you threw out a few years ago - you really can say you "heard it on the grape vine"...
Please - if you're going to throw tomatoes can you make sure they're GM free ones...
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then couldn't they also be used as microphones? The sound would just travel in the opposite direction.
To avoid further confusion, I'll just post the url:
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20040716/mb ird.htm
Also, here is Let's Corp.'s official page about the
Flower Speaker Amplifier...
http://www.lets-co.co.jp/fsp/fsp.htm
That's in Japanese as well, sorry Slashdot.
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If a tree plays Elvis in the forest and there's no one to hear it, is he still alive?
Imagine desk, computer, chair, and two big power plants on both sides used to play heavy metal music in stereo.
Even better, imagine 5.1 setup: 5 power plants around desk and one underground (nuclear one?).
So, if a tree in a forest is attached to one of these, and there is no one around to here it, does it make a sound?
I guess what should really be asked is, who would bother to buy one for a tree and then not listen to it? Trees get lonely too.
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...for listening to Oak, Ash, & Thorn!
There can't be an universal frequency for all plants so you must calibrate the 'loudspeakers' depending on the plant you're playing trough. And when the plant grows. Guess what?...
Recalibrate! And even if you calibrate it like a jedi master the sound will be more like the Ents from The Two Towers than from a speaker.
No. Your RIAA/Napster/Burpee licence only allows these music files to be played on certain select annuals. The plant DRM prevents transfer to other species.
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Reminds me of a thing I saw net-side a few years ago, which was a speaker housed in a cardboard box that could be folded up and taken anywhere. Supposedly it sounded decent too, I can't find the link though.
I guess I don't know quite as much about accoustics as I should, but it seems like most anything could be made to effectively vibrate the air? I'd love to have a computer case from which the sound just "eminates"... or maybe, on a less geeky note, just a new take on the singing tie...
So, someone has put together a transducer (probably a piezoelectric one) that is coupled to a flower stem by gravity, and has gone to the bother of determining what the frequency response of the lily is and equalised accordingly. Yeah, I guess it's kind of impressive, but somehow I'm more interested in that circular printer that's on the same page at the CNET Asia link.
That's why the plant in your bedroom is a "begonia."
Warning: Don't plug these into a cactus, such as this, or you may find yourself in a world of hurt, especially at the every low frequencies.
Yet another way I can kill my plants. I bet a fikas (sp?) would get pissed and lose its leaves if one of these things were even in the same room as it.
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Imagine seeing a wall of Marshall flower amps on stage at a death metal show.
~S
...as using PLANETS as speakers, which immediately reminded me of Hotblack from the Hitchhiker's Guide. I should read something more mainstream for a change...
I just found out that you can download an illegally hacked genus ROM file to use the system with poplars.
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We could download or order ringtones for our plants. Most interesting could be ringtones for cactus-type stuff:)
:)
for example cactus vibrating by ice-t track. Or rammstein. it goes better than Celine Dion "my hear will go on".
On the other hand, could playing fast and harsh dnb on plants be harmful to them?
If the system is reversible, then plants will be banned from all secure areas.
"Shhh... I think the phycus is listening."
Does this require dead plants, or it works in the alive ones? If the second case is true, does this harm the plant? or stimutates its growth or is indiferent?
Why are the articles so short in details?
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the MOST RETARDED invention, ever. EVER.
Ok, well, it might not be the MOST retarded, but it's darn close.
So if a tree in the forest is playing music and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
thanks to a Japanese invention that turns petals and leaves into amplifiers.
It turns petals and leaves into _speakers_, not amplifiers. The amplifier is the part that takes a signal and makes it louder, and the speaker converts the energy from the amplifier to audible signal.
why oh why don't I have mod points?!
personally, I don't want to be obligated to water my speaker system every week ...
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ahhh sorry, my plants just died last week ...
hey, let's listen to some mp3's
Doh !
Listening to violent rap music or anything called 'music' by MTV will cause the plant to lash our violently...in Japan
Man, I really smoked my speakers...
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It doesn't turn the plants into amplifiers, it uses parts of the plants as speaker cones: they've built a system that shakes plants.
I wouldn't think the frequency response and dynamic range of a shaking plant would be very impressive.
Maybe
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And there can't be any plant alive that likes the Byrds....
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?"
This "invention" reminds me a lot the soundbug, wich turned windows and flat surfaces into speakers. Info about soundbug at http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5a15/
I'm just waiting for some Japanese inventor to figure out a way to get plants dressed up in those Sailor Moon schoolgirl outfits...
Having the petals and leaves function as an amplifier is some vorlon shit. But, nice try.
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This is cruel its lie using a person's nose and ears as amplifiers, while making sure his mouth is firmly secured.
You win a toaster.
I dunno, it MUST have been the roses...
Aren't they afraid of inadvertently creating a breed of musically-savvy Superplants?
This is getting ridiculous...
I can see this turning into a marketing ploy for various high-priced farms.
All grapefruit are tuned to a medley of classical composers from Bach to Mozart to Brahms 24 hours a day, ensuring you get the happiest fruit available.
Great fruit comes from Happy Trees. Happy Trees come from California Musical Farms.
If only Pauly Shore had this technology for his climactic party in Bio-Dome. It would have saved the movie.
Next to my Chia pet collection.
Anyone happen to see anywhere that these will be sold? :)
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Newscientist has an article about this too.
...on musical plants...
I don't know why this article wasn't posted with the main story, but here it is {much longer than the other articles}
done
FYI, here is a rough translation about photographs on this page from top to bottom. I think you could find some more interesting stuff from them.
They also mentioning. "So far, there isn't accurate data about biological effects on plants. But in our experience, it seems vabration revitalizes plants and expands their lives."
You know, I had a crappy pair of speakers and I thought, why not pass along the experience? My plants love the music of Yoko Kanno, PuffyAmiYumi, Pillows, and all other wild and wacky music groups.
Now, sadly, all of my plants are dead and I am still stuck with these crappy speakers. But now all of your plants are dead too! Bwahahahahahaha!!!!
(This made more sense in the original Japanese... well, no actually it didn't...)
IANAL, but I've seen actors play them on TV
Ok but how long until NetBSD is ported to a Ficus? :)
Tiny Tim's "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"?
Some research has shown that plants give "communicative" response to various environmental influence.
The described "intrusion" may very well cause stress and harm to them. Should be banned untill we know much more about how "intelligent" plants are. Just becouse they don't have "parts" that create audible sound for the human ears, does not mean they don't have the same reactions as animals do, who can express it by voicing their dislike.
"according to Koga, music is also good for the plants, which are invigorated by the constant musical vibes."
Any one ever do a Science Fair project on the effects of differnt types of music on plants? It would be cool to see an experiment on the effects of different types of music played through the plant with this device. And of course compare the findings to the original experiment.
And they just die.
I didn't know they only understood Japanese.
...a beowulf cluster of these.
Oh, that's right. It's called a forest.
(ducks)
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Does this mean I can grow them into subwoofers if I use plenty of water and fertilizer ?
Yard-party, anyone ?
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Ysalamiri, Spaarti cylinders and cloaked asteroids. And IIRC, the plants on which the droids resided were crazy hypercolour things which were very sensitive to pressure changes and suchwhat. Interesting that this could possibly be done with typical, earth plants.
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