Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Funny News - Blogger Plant

Hi everyone! I've been MIA from blogville for a while. I'll be back soon to do a proper update. I just want to put up this story that I stumbled on today from the Telegraph news site:


Blogging plant posts daily news on its mood

A potted plant that posts daily news on its mood and health is believed to be the world's first botanical blogger.


Midori-san, which lives on the counter of a Japanese café, writes regular updates with the help of sensors attached to its leaves.

The detectors pick up electronic signals on the surface of the plant, which responds to light and human touch.

The data is then combined with weather and temperature information and translated into chatty blog posts using a computer algorithm.

"Today was a sunny day and I was able to sunbathe a lot... I had quite a bit of fun today," it wrote on October 16 from its cafe in Kamakura, near Tokyo.

A more recent entry was less perky: "It was cloudy today. It was a cold day."

Satoshi Kuribayashi, part of the team at Keio University behind the project, said that the aim was to reveal something of the hidden internal world of plants.

"We were initially interested in what plants are feeling and what they are reacting to where we can't see," he said.

Midori-san is a hoya kerrii, which are more commonly called "sweetheart plants" because of their heart-shaped leaves.

It joins a blogosphere that is thought to have several hundred million members across the world. More blog posts are written in Japanese than either Chinese or English, according to a 2007 study.




Interesting stuff! lol If you can read Japanese, check out the blog here: http://plant.bowls-cafe.jp/index.php

Have a great evening!

7 comments:

  1. NAWA o...Plant ke?

    this one pass me o..

    how u doing girl??

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  2. Now that is big, how did it do that?lol Update fast o. Hope you are doing good.

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  3. LOL

    That is funny. When plants start updating/blogging, that one na serious wahala o

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  4. This is so funny...somehow I am still trying to understand this...

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  5. This is really interesting...LOL. I'm just wondering why I never cared enough to bother how plants were "feeling?" R they kidding? Lol

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  6. Kike G8:45 PM

    That's so cool isn't it? Soon we'll have animals blogging too :)

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  7. Interesting...very? So what do they do? Pick the mood of the plant through some machine which then translates it to English? So how do they translate what the plant feels as sun to be sun? In fact how do they know at the time that the plant meant sun and not moon. I'm confused.

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