New Device Turns Plants & Flowers Into Speaker Amplifiers

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TOKYO (Reuters) - People who like talking to their plants can now enjoy a musical accompaniment, thanks to a Japanese invention that turns petals and leaves into amplifiers.

Called the "Flower Speaker Amplifiers," the gadget made by Let's Corp is hidden in a vase or a potted plant and sends music at just the right frequency to vibrate up the stems and then be converted into audible sound by the plant as a whole.

A device such as a CD player or radio can be connected to it.

"Anywhere where you would want music naturally integrated with a natural surrounding," said Hirohiko Okugawa, a manager at Let's, referring to locations for the device, which he expects it to be popular for hotels and hospital lobbies.

The inventor of the gadget, Keiji Koga, said: "We are finally able to experience plants and flowers with all five of our natural senses."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=1&u=/nm/20040720/od_nm/odd_japan_flowers_dc

[GOPisEvil]

1. If I come home after a night of drinking, and my plants are singing to me,

I think that would push me over the edge.

[matcom]

2. I Survived That!

it ain't so bad :D

[GOPisEvil]

3. I guess it would depend on what song was playing.

:D

[matcom]

4. "Every Rose Has Its Thorn"

but that was last Friday night x(

[GOPisEvil]

6. Yikes!

x(

[Spinzonner]

5. Been There, Seen That

Little Shop of Horrors

[teach1st]

7. What would Robert Plant say? N/T

[underpants]

8. New? They've had these things for years

[trof]

9. The hills are aliiiive

with the sound of musiiiiiic
;-)