Hack a Day. Skull-A-Day. Google Book Downloader - Home. Spacehack. World | Asia-Pacific | Japanese plant writes blog. Blogging Houseplant Midori-San. Blogging Houseplant Midori-San Blogging houseplants? I knew that, on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog - but a plant? (Midori-san the blogging houseplant) Kamakura-based IT company KAYAC Co., Ltd. has developed a sophisticated botanical interface system that lets plants post their thoughts online. A succulent Sweetheart Hoya (Hoya kerii) named “Midori-san” is now using the system to blog daily from its home at bowls Donburi Cafe in Kamakura. The plant "corresponds" via an interface system consisting of surface potential biosensors to read the weak bioelectric current flowing across the surface of the leaves. A custom algorithm translates this data into Japanese sentences. (Typical blogpost from Midori-san the blogging houseplant) Visitors can give Midori-san a bit of fluorescent light - just click the "Give Light to Midori-San" link, natch.
I don't have a specific science-fictional reference for a blogging house plant. Dr. Maybe we shouldn't start plants blogging... Via Pink Tentacle. Meet the Plant Blogger, Midori-san - Gearlog. Midori-san, the blogging houseplant ::: Pink Tentacle. Midori-san, the blogging houseplant, at bowls Donburi Cafe in Kamakura If houseplants could blog, what would they say? To find out, Kamakura-based IT company KAYAC Co., Ltd. has developed a sophisticated botanical interface system that lets plants post their thoughts online. A succulent Sweetheart Hoya (Hoya kerii) named "Midori-san" is now using the system to blog daily from its home at bowls Donburi Cafe in Kamakura. The plant interface system, which is built around technology developed by Satoshi Kuribayashi at the Keio University Hiroya Tanaka Laboratory, uses surface potential sensors to read the weak bioelectric current flowing across the surface of the leaves. This natural current fluctuates in response to changes in the immediate environment, such as temperature, humidity, vibration, electromagnetic waves and nearby human activity.
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