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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. Speakers != Amplifiers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

  2. Amplifier? by NoMercy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  3. Curious by SageMadHatter · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder if the constant vibration of the sound resonating through a plant's body will cause any harm to it.

    Mad Hatter

  4. oh? by jpellino · · Score: 4, Interesting

    '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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  5. If they can be used as speakers... by Daverd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    then couldn't they also be used as microphones? The sound would just travel in the opposite direction.