[an0n]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3656332.stm

[Rictor]

Whenever you think someting is impossible or just simply too wierd to make, leave it to the Japanese to prove you wrong.

[Jetmech Jr.]

Makes me proud to be of asian descent

...

...talking to flowers...

Let me rethink that...

[an0n]

Talking to flowers and them talking back.........

[Rictor]

well, its technically just a flower-speaker, but its does seem needlessly strange.

edit: you could have huge fun with this. Make people think the flowers are talking to them, and then pretend you don't hear anything...

[Jetmech Jr.]

s'pose it'll make for thousands of happy gardeners, though.

[Gloriano]

Flower: Smoke me!!!!!
Someone: hell yeah
Flower: mwhaha humanity shall bow before me


yeah well it's kinda strange actually someone starts talk to flower

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Anyone remember those irritating things from the early-nineties?
Those plastic potplants with shades on, who'd play music if you clapped at em?

[aldo_14]

Someone just made Prince Charles day..........

[Taristin]

I'd be willing to try that. I wonder how loud they can produce sound.

It'd be the ultimate surround sound system.

[ionia23]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Anyone remember those irritating things from the early-nineties?
Those plastic potplants with shades on, who'd play music if you clapped at em?

See the true face of evil.

[Ford Prefect]

I don't know if I like the idea of giving my plants information. Anyone seen Day of the Triffids?

[Flipside]

I saw something like this on a TV program about a year ago, where some university student used a device to monitor the soils temperature/humidity etc, and it would use a synthesized voice to let people know it needed watering etc. It was actually quite a useful tool, though personally, I'd prefer an LCD display or the like

[IceFire]

We know they respond better to classical music than almost anything else.  Now we're just giving them headphones

[Clave]

Stranger than fiction.....

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by Ford Prefect
I don't know if I like the idea of giving my plants information. Anyone seen Day of the Triffids?

Read, dammit

[Sandwich]

President of Let's Corp Masumi Gotoh says that the system is also beneficial to the plants, keeping bugs off and helping them last longer.

I wonder what happens when you plug in a Venus flytrap?

[BlackDove]

"The plant is happy listening to music," he said.

How do we know[/i] that?

Maybe it's just shrieking for help because you're torturing it with sounds?