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A Few Thoughts (Score:2, Funny)
2. Do we really want plants that make funny noises? I've got coworkers for that.
3. Do the plants really like the music? Has anyone done a survey?
4. Is Slashdot really the proper forum for this posting?
Dope (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dope (Score:2)
Eno.
Re:Dope (Score:1)
Re:Dope (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dope (Score:2)
Re:A Few Thoughts (Score:1, Redundant)
Is Slashdot really the proper forum for this posting?
You don't like plant singing at you ? I feel it's a pretty poetic invention. Makes me smile. Makes the omelete finely. Immagine you garden filed with strawberies plant, slowly growing year after year, expending the music. Or an aple tree growing into your nasty neighboor garden. And then play Simple Pleasure of Boby Mc Ferrin at him. OoooO yeeea!
Re:A Few Thoughts (Score:2)
Hmmm... sending vibrations up the stem.... souds like fun to me!!!!!!!
I want it ! ! ! (Score:2)
Re:A Few Thoughts (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:A Few Thoughts (Score:2)
Re:A Few Thoughts (Score:2)
Lower the frequency, bigger the speaker, so
Banana plants for sub-woofers, rose plants for midrange, cherry blossoms for treble.
Re:A Few Thoughts (Score:2)
Re:A Few Thoughts (Score:5, 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.
Re:A Few Thoughts (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:A Few Thoughts (Score:2)
Silly Japanese (Score:4, Informative)
Not so Silly Japanese (Score:2)
And they just die.
I didn't know they only understood Japanese.
Screaming Trees? (Score:5, Funny)
Although I am dubious about the long term effects of Billy Idol (or KISS for that matter) on my potted pansies. (Potted....nevermind...)
RMW
Re:Screaming Trees? (Score:2)
Re:Screaming Trees? (Score:2)
This is pretty cool! (Score:1)
Sounds like the body speaker... (Score:2)
Regardless, this sounds like it needs to be in the "why-the-hell-would-you-waste-your-money-on-it" category. Those fake-rock speakers are one helluva lot cheaper, and sound quite good.
it works? (Score:1)
how it works ... IN JAPAN
prank galore: (Score:1)
This requires killing the plant (Score:3, Informative)
Re:This requires killing the plant (Score:3, Funny)
First thing i'm getting mine to say: (Score:5, Funny)
What kinda sounds (Score:4, Funny)
If the plant speaker could reproduce the sound accurately, however, there would be some interesting applications. I would couple the speaker w/video recognition - then I could have the plants "yell" at unwanted visitors at my house.
Re:What kinda sounds (Score:2)
Excuse me while I go patent this.
This is making plants speakers (not amplifiers) (Score:3, Informative)
"The system, comprising an amplifier, vase and an acrylic resin cylinder, makes flowers' petals and leaves vibrate and transmit sounds, just as the paper cones of stereo speakers vibrate, the two said."
So the system has an amplifier and the plant has the role of loudspeaker. I was hoping for a powersaving alternative to my amplifier, but I better stick to it a little longer.
Re:This is making plants speakers (not amplifiers) (Score:2)
Why not just wire a bunch of potatoes together?
Good Karma (Score:1, Funny)
Smelly Speakers (Score:1)
Re:Smelly Speakers (Score:2)
Isn't using plants for speakers going to make this more likely. Cats and dogs spray plants with "scent".
Speakers != Amplifiers (Score:2, Interesting)
Yeah, this is really nitpicky.
Obscure 80's Reference. (Score:2, Funny)
Falling (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Falling (Score:1)
Is that whey you play crappy Rod Stewart music through the plant?
Re:Falling (Score:2)
For the trixsters amongst us... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh yes... Halloween will be fun!
~D
Re:For the trixsters amongst us... (Score:4, Funny)
Who else? (Score:2)
Imagine the hours of fun as the boss looks for that damn draft that he knows just HAS to be in that corner.
I think I've just convinced myself to get one once they come to market here. : )
New line for Hitchhiker's (Score:2)
amplifiers (Score:1)
So the question remains. When will those bastard trees stop attenuating my wifi signal?
All Five Senses? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:All Five Senses? (Score:1)
Sight: "Oh, what pretty flower."
Sound: This article
Smell: "Um..."
Touch: "Soft..."
Taste:
Re:All Five Senses? (Score:2)
Two questions (Score:2)
Re:Two questions (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Two questions (Score:2)
Ok read this please (Score:2, Informative)
/please don't mark this informative you brain dead mods, and you know which ones you are, if anything this is funny.
Amplifier? (Score:4, Interesting)
In other news... (Score:2, Funny)
twisted (Score:2)
What artists to the plants enjoy? (Score:4, Funny)
Cannibus: Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd
Vegetables: Boy-bands and Brittney Spears
Grains, Barley, Hops, & Tobacco: Frank Sinatra
Squashes: Smashing Pumpkins
Eggplants: MC Hawking
Genetically modified crops: "Weird" Al
Re:What artists to the plants enjoy? (Score:2, Funny)
Cruel and unusual - you'll have Greenpeace on you in a cocaine heartbeat.
Genetically modified crops: "Weird" Al
Wrong. Genetically modified crops: DEVO
And of course we need an industrial strength version to make a pine tree sing I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK...
Re:What artists to the plants enjoy? (Score:2)
Casio ... (Score:5, Funny)
Curious (Score:2, Interesting)
Mad Hatter
oh? (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm guessing this guy's never slept in a tall pine forest. The sounds are amazing.
Re:oh? (Score:4, Funny)
I'm guessing this guy's never slept...
I totally thought you were going somewhere else with that sentence.
Re:oh? (Score:2)
Re:oh? (Score:2)
It'll never work. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It'll never work. (Score:2)
Call me a troll if you want, but, you know, STICKS and stones... it would only prove to me that you can't see the FOREST for the TREES, you LUMBERing oaf.
Meanwhile jay and silent bob are celebrating... (Score:1)
Obligatory... (Score:1)
Maybe soon to be replaced vibrating, singing dildo...
Would they explode... (Score:1)
Re:Would they explode... (Score:2)
to what the Flower People say"
Don't blame me, you started teh Spinal Tap references
Obligatory joke (Score:2)
Please - if you're going to throw tomatoes can you make sure they're GM free ones...
Zep (Score:2, Funny)
If they can be used as speakers... (Score:5, Interesting)
You bet. (Score:2)
Re:If they can be used as speakers... (Score:2)
Counter-intelligence droids.
obligatory singing bush (Score:2)
A Philosophical Question... (Score:3, Funny)
Reading topic without reading story (Score:2)
Even better, imagine 5.1 setup: 5 power plants around desk and one underground (nuclear one?).
A tree... (Score:4, Funny)
I guess what should really be asked is, who would bother to buy one for a tree and then not listen to it? Trees get lonely too.
Just the thing... (Score:2)
Hard to use? (Score:1, Insightful)
Recalibrate! And even if you calibrate it like a jedi master the sound will be more like the Ents from The Two Towers than from a speaker.
WARNING! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:WARNING! (Score:2)
Marshall Amps (Score:2)
~S
I misread that... (Score:2)
new business area (Score:2, Funny)
for example cactus vibrating by ice-t track. Or rammstein. it goes better than Celine Dion "my hear will go on".
On the other hand, could playing fast and harsh dnb on plants be harmful to them?
Amplifiers? (Score:2)
Having the petals and leaves function as an amplifier is some vorlon shit. But, nice try.
such missed opportunities (Score:2)
Disney already has prior art... (Score:2)
New Scientist Article (Score:2, Informative)
Hi, I'm the Inventor, Keiji Koga... (Score:2)
Now, sadly, all of my plants are dead and I am still stuck with these crappy speakers. But now all of your plants are dead too! Bwahahahahahaha!!!!
(This made more sense in the original Japanese... well, no actually it didn't...)
Old Science Fair Experiment (Score:2)
Any one ever do a Science Fair project on the effects of differnt types of music on plants? It would be cool to see an experiment on the effects of different types of music played through the plant with this device. And of course compare the findings to the original experiment.
Imagine... (Score:2)
Oh, that's right. It's called a forest.
(ducks)
I am your geranium (Score:2)
Veggie music (Score:2)
(It's real; I found 'em linked in my girlfriend's blog [typepad.com] yesterday. Wish I could get a copy of their disc here in Canada affordably...)
-b
Re:In Japan... (Score:3, Funny)
In Soviet Japan...plants speak to you!
OR
Plants speak to you...in Japan!
Re:In Japan... (Score:1)
Re:Our Perennial Overlords... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Our Perennial Overlords... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:In Japan... (Score:1)
wonder how long before the tv is showing home movie footage of freaked out kids and grandma's.
not to mention upsetting a few vegan's
but what would you have your plants say
farmers vesion going
Giit orff moi land !