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Using Plants as Speakers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the listening-to-foghat-on-your-ficas dept.

Kerhop writes "People who like talking to their plants can now enjoy a musical accompaniment, thanks to a Japanese invention that turns petals and leaves into amplifiers. Several others are also reporting details of how it works."

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  1. Silly Japanese by BinaryWolf · · Score: 4, Informative

    They could of saved some time and ordered the sound bug.

  2. This requires killing the plant by Blastrogath · · Score: 2, Informative

    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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  3. This is making plants speakers (not amplifiers) by agurk · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  4. Ok read this please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  5. New Scientist Article by chaosmage42 · · Score: 2, Informative

    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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