Japanese Invention Turns Flowers Into Loudspeakers
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:34 am
BBC News
Green-fingered gardeners have long espoused the positive benefits of talking to plants.
Now a gadget developed in Japan is allowing flowers to answer back - with music.
Called Ka-on, which means "flower sound" in Japanese, the gadget consists of a doughnut-shaped magnet and coil at the base of a vase.
It hooks up to a CD player, TV or stereo and relays sounds up through a plant's stem and out via the petals.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3656332.stm
Green-fingered gardeners have long espoused the positive benefits of talking to plants.
Now a gadget developed in Japan is allowing flowers to answer back - with music.
Called Ka-on, which means "flower sound" in Japanese, the gadget consists of a doughnut-shaped magnet and coil at the base of a vase.
It hooks up to a CD player, TV or stereo and relays sounds up through a plant's stem and out via the petals.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3656332.stm