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Toyota Develops New Plant Species

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the green-not-just-a-paint-option dept.

oznigot writes "Yes, that's Toyota, the car company. In what appears to be a publicity stunt to promote their hybrid vehicle technology Toyota has developed a new species of plant. Of the Cherry Sage shrub family, the new plant absorbs nitrogen oxide and other substances from the air better than the original Cherry Sage." Update: 10/16 00:01 GMT by Z : Original link removed.

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  1. It should be noted.. by linux_warp · · Score: 4, Informative

    It should be noted that the car division of Toyota did not create this plant, but rather a company they own: "Toyota Roof Garden Co". Not sure why it is such great news that a gardening company made a plant..

    1. Re:It should be noted.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative
      From the article:
      Toyota Motor Corp said Thursday it has developed a new species of the Cherry Sage shrub family
      and
      will be sold for 380 yen per pot through Toyota Roof Garden Co, a Toyota Motor subsidiary.
      So it looks like Toyota Motor Copr did create the plant and will be selling it through a subsidiary.
  2. NOTE: ARTICLE LINK IS GOATSE REDIRECT by ergo98 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Either someone is very a quick hacker, or this was a pre-planned exploit, but the article redirects to goatse. Now lets watch Slashdot's finest (the so-called editors) take a couple of hours to correct this.

  3. Goatse Linked by crypto55 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The page died before I could continue loading; my WiFi is bad in my room. But FF told me that the link to goatse.ca died...
    Look at the source of the page.
    " Japan Today - News - Toyota devises shrub to purify, cool airwindow.location="http://goatse.ca/""
    Someone hacked the page to redirect to the Goatse.

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  4. Re:Dude! by DrEldarion · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thought it should be noted near the top that the article now redirects to Goatse.

  5. Re:donnie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Humans have been "altering" genetic make up of plants and animals to suit our needs for centuries. We are not playing god now anymore now than they were 2000 years ago.

  6. pwned! by __aaahtg7394 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Awesome, some jackass got into their db and changed the title slightly:

    $ wget 'http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&id=3513 99' -O - | grep title

    <title>Japan Today - News - Toyota devises shrub to purify, cool air<script>window.location="http://goatse.ca/" </script> - Japan's Leading International News Network</title>

  7. article text (got it with lynx -- no goatse.ca) by putko · · Score: 2, Informative

    Toyota devises shrub to purify, cool air

          Friday, October 7, 2005 at 05:00 JST
          NAGOYA -- Toyota Motor Corp said Thursday it has developed a new
          species of the Cherry Sage shrub family that effectively absorbs
          harmful substances in the air.

          The new species, called Kirsch Pink, will be sold for 380 yen per pot
          through Toyota Roof Garden Co, a Toyota Motor subsidiary, from March
          next year. While Cherry Sage plants are known to absorb nitrogen
          oxide, sulfur dioxide and other harmful substances in the air, the new
          species does so 1.3 times more effectively, the automaker said.

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