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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. Screaming Trees? by webwalker · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  3. First thing i'm getting mine to say: by anothy · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Feed me, Seymour!"

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  4. Falling by leomekenkamp · · Score: 5, Funny

    A falling plant was reported making a sound remarkably similar to the english sentence: "Oh no, not again."

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  5. For the trixsters amongst us... by Dracolytch · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  6. Casio ... by CodeArtisan · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  7. 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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    1. Re:oh? by Wannabe+Code+Monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

      '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...

      I totally thought you were going somewhere else with that sentence.

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  8. 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.

  9. Re:A Few Thoughts by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 4, Funny


    > 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.