Flower Power’s new meaning
p2pnet.net News:- You’ve heard about people talking to trees?
Now they can listen to flowers.
Ka-on means “flower sound” in Japanese, but it’s also the marketing name for technology that literally turns flowers on.
“Bring your ear near a flower, and hear the music emanate from the petals like a decorative earphone,” says Associated Press writer Yuri Kageyama. “Touch a leaf, and feel it shake as though in a quiet dance.”
Kageyama says Flower Power is achieved through 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.”
Several Ka-on were planted near a bamboo grove to play music at a recent event in Japan, says AP, adding that about 3,000 of $46 units have been sold online since July, have been sold, “and some 10,000 orders have been received so far”.
PS – Apparently, a poinsettia Ka-on is slated to go on sale before Christmas.
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See:-
turns flowers on – Flowers Turn into Speakers to Deliver Good Vibrations, Technology Review, September 15, 2004
Site – Let’s Corp
