Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Cantaro: let the plant do the singing

Plants are becoming digital. Maybe it's an odd revolution but it's happening. Previously we've had plants communicating with Twitter and now they all of a sudden become musicians.


With the Cantaro. No it's not just a silly singing plant (like one of those fishes you can hang on your wall) the speaker in fact depicts the plant's mood. Well for as far plants have moods then.
Anyway, when there's, for example a lot of water the speaker can produce 'watery' sounds to indicate this. Since this is just an early version of the Cantaro it uses a CD player for the audio samples. So in theory the plant could say "Some sun please" if it needs sun.

-jdh

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