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Turn Your House Plants Into Speakers

Posted by timothy on from the audrey-already-sings dept.

thermopile writes "According to this story, your everyday houseplants could be turned into room-filling speakers. Called Ka-on ('Flower Sound' in Japanese), the machine consists of a donut-shaped magnet and coil at the base of a vase that hooks up to a CD player, stereo or TV. Prices range from $46 to $460. I don't know about you, but I'd hate getting fragged by that plant over there while playing Doom 3..."

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  1. Sound quality ? by leonmergen · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hmmmm, I wonder what the sound quality is... I recently bought this device, but the sound quality is really poor... nice idea though!

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  2. Trippin by threeofnine · · Score: 5, Funny
    Now when I am tripped out on LSD, I can say that the plant really did say something. :-)

    Three of Nine

  3. Some pictures of singing plants by nayigeta · · Score: 5, Informative
    BBC report cover the same story with some pictures.

    This is pretty cool, especially for some geeks that are high on gardening.

    Would like to try this myself.

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  4. Something... just something... by Silverlancer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Something... just something... tells me that this isn't going to catch on. The fact that its both Japanese and relatively useless is a hint.

  5. Wow, no katakana by kahei · · Score: 5, Insightful



    I am absolutely amazed that they named it in honest-to-god pseudo-Chinese rather than calling it 'furauaa saundo' or something.

    Next, they'll start naming things in actual Japanese. Oh, wait, that would require attention to aesthetics and meaning rather than to sounding cool and vague.

    Bring back Heian period Japanese, say I.

    PS I am not a crank.

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  6. More pictures by Ranx · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here you can see some pictures:

    http://www.lets-direct.jp/fsp/fsp3.htm (Mostly pictures of flowers in a vase).

    I wonder if the last vase is really seven times more expensive than the first one.

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  7. Re:Way to go, Slasdot editors! by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is one good thing to dupe stories:

    You can always increase your karma by re-posting all the comments modded +5

    ...

    Oh, wait, do you mean comments from the original stories? ;-)

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  8. Re:Eeeehm ... by mairas · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not sure I'll take horticultural advice from someone who has a _rubber_ plant on his desk ...

    Uh, rubber plants (Ficus elastica) are common household plants, and while they might not be the most difficult plants to keep alive, they still are real, living entities, instead of being made of rubber, as you seem to suggest. I'm not sure I'd listen to critique of one's horticultural knowledge from someone who doesn't even know the rubber plant...

  9. Brings a whole new meaning to... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    my speakers just died.

    And the way my plants hold up, i'd have to buy new
    speakers every two weeks. ;)