Flower Power

[kurohinge1]

Turn up the Flowers! Let's Party !



From SMH, 16/7/04:

Listen to the flowers ... A Japanese woman listens to music through a bouquet of gerberas during a demonstration of the "flower speaker". The flower speaker uses a coil in the base of a flower vase to send musical vibrations through the water and have them emanate from the flower petals and leaves. Photo: Reuters

Next Valentine's & White Days should be interesting ...

[Taro Toporific]

"flower speaker". The flower speaker uses a coil in the base of a flower vase to send musical vibrations through the water and have them emanate from the flower petals and leaves.
Next Valentine's & White Days should be interesting ...

Hmm, I swear the ikebana said something to me at lunch.

[GomiGirl]

"flower speaker". The flower speaker uses a coil in the base of a flower vase to send musical vibrations through the water and have them emanate from the flower petals and leaves.
Next Valentine's & White Days should be interesting ...

Hmm, I swear the ikebana said something to me at lunch.

Taro, I have warned you about those acid flashbacks...

[kurohinge1]

"flower speaker". The flower speaker uses a coil in the base of a flower vase to send musical vibrations through the water and have them emanate from the flower petals and leaves.
Next Valentine's & White Days should be interesting ...

Hmm, I swear the ikebana said something to me at lunch.

Were you caught peeing in the flowerpot again?
It's certainly worth trying the 'talking flower' defence, at least once:
[Taro at the police box] "But it said 'water me, water me'".

[kurohinge1]

Those noisy flowers are in the news again ...

Flower power
Masumi Gotoh, president of Japanese telecommunications-equipment company Let's Corp., explains about the company's new invention called Ka-on, that turns the petals and leaves of flowers into an audio speaker. The ka-on, which means "flower sound" in Japanese, consists of a donut-shaped magnet and coil at the base of a vase that hooks up to a CD player, stereo or TV.

Place the flowers into the vase, turn on Ka-on and the magnet and coil relay the sound vibrations up the stems through the plant's water tubes.

Ka-on vases and amplifiers, bottom center, come in various sizes, ranging in price from 5,000 yen to 50,000 yen.

Umm ... relaying sound vibrations up your water tube?
Surely another invention from [url=http://images.google.com.au/images?q=tbn:9dJPn015npYJ:[url]http://www011.upp.so-net.ne.jp/kinki-formula/img/logo.gif][/url]Kinky University[/url]?

Has anyone (via TV or in person) heard what sort of sound quality the flowers emit?