Midori-San:The Blogging Houseplant
This is insane.
A tech company in Japan has set up an interface that allows a houseplant to actually blog its 'thoughts'.
The plant interface system, 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. A specially developed algorithm translates this data into Japanese sentences, which are used for the plant’s daily blog posts.
Of course, it's in Japanese so I can't tell if the plants' blog is informative or entertaining. For all I know It could be just blogging about the Dancing Baby from Ally McBeal.
Kick-ass technology though.
Via Pink Tentacle.