I saw this thing at Siggraph in the Emerging Technologies exhibit. I really didn't find this to be that interesting of a project. The hardware was cool to look at, but the behavior was weak in my opinion. Basically it just exhibited a few "canned" movements in response to different stimuli. So if someone moved fast near it, it would shrink back. Otherwise it would just move to water the plant. Overall I must say that of all the Emerging Technologies exhibits this one does not deserve its own slashdot post.
Well I just put together a nice little audio system that I feel covers all the basics and then a bit. I bought a Sony str-de945 for the receiver it gives out a nice 500 watts, and all the optical plugs and s-video plugs you can handle. As for speakers I went with JBL all around except for the sub-woofer, I got a cerwin-vega 10" sub, and JBL S-38 for front sound, JBL N-24 for rear, and a JBL S-Center. This all ended up costing me about $1000 maybe a bit more, after some good searching on mysimon and yahoo shopping. I hope this helps you guys out.
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I saw this thing at Siggraph in the Emerging Technologies exhibit. I really didn't find this to be that interesting of a project. The hardware was cool to look at, but the behavior was weak in my opinion. Basically it just exhibited a few "canned" movements in response to different stimuli. So if someone moved fast near it, it would shrink back. Otherwise it would just move to water the plant. Overall I must say that of all the Emerging Technologies exhibits this one does not deserve its own slashdot post.
Well I just put together a nice little audio system that I feel covers all the basics and then a bit. I bought a Sony str-de945 for the receiver it gives out a nice 500 watts, and all the optical plugs and s-video plugs you can handle. As for speakers I went with JBL all around except for the sub-woofer, I got a cerwin-vega 10" sub, and JBL S-38 for front sound, JBL N-24 for rear, and a JBL S-Center. This all ended up costing me about $1000 maybe a bit more, after some good searching on mysimon and yahoo shopping. I hope this helps you guys out.