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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> 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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Silly Japanese
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BinaryWolf
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They could of saved some time and ordered the sound bug.
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.
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.
Obscure 80's Reference.
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Deathlizard
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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.
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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"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?
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.
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.
A spokesperson for Earth First! called for an immediate boycott of Japanese products. "We cannot stand idly by and watch the further enslavement and oppression of our green brothers and sisters by chlorophyll-challenged bipeds. We call on right-thinking people everywhere to send a clear message to the profiteering corporate lackeys of Japan that we shall not accept their careless attacks on the other lifeforms that allow us to share Gaia with them."
What artists to the plants enjoy?
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Apocalypse111
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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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Re:What artists to the plants enjoy?
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wowbagger
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Vegetables: Boy-bands and Brittney Spears Cruel and unusual - you'll have Greenpeace on you in a cocaine heartbeat.
Genetically modified crops: "Weird" Al Wrong. Genetically modified crops: DEVO
And of course we need an industrial strength version to make a pine tree sing I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK...
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.
Re:Our Perennial Overlords...
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Commander+Trollco
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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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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"?
They could of saved some time and ordered the sound bug.
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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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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i speak for myself and those who like what i say.
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.
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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A falling plant was reported making a sound remarkably similar to the english sentence: "Oh no, not again."
Wenn ist das Nunstueck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.
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. : )
I assert that my comment is only my opinion, not that of any employer, past, present or future.
I believe the proper line would have been either...
In Soviet Japan...plants speak to you!
OR
Plants speak to you...in Japan!
"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?
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.
A spokesperson for Earth First! called for an immediate boycott of Japanese products. "We cannot stand idly by and watch the further enslavement and oppression of our green brothers and sisters by chlorophyll-challenged bipeds. We call on right-thinking people everywhere to send a clear message to the profiteering corporate lackeys of Japan that we shall not accept their careless attacks on the other lifeforms that allow us to share Gaia with them."
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
There is no mod option "-1: Disagree" for a reason. "Overrated" is not an acceptable substitute. Post something instead.
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.
Mad Hatter
'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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then couldn't they also be used as microphones? The sound would just travel in the opposite direction.
If a tree plays Elvis in the forest and there's no one to hear it, is he still alive?
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.
// file: mice.h
#include "frickin_lasers.h"
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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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.
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?
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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