lhb2444 Posted August 11, 2012 Stumbled across this on newscientist.com the other day, some researchers are using living plants as tactile sensors to allow us to interact with electronic devices and what not. The video explains it a hell of lot better than I ever could so I won't bother trying. Interesting to see the researches also try using some pretty spiny cacti too, can't imagine they'd be suitable touch sensors though, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shamanistic Posted August 11, 2012 I'm in awe, I had thought about modelling plants as electrical circuits a little while ago but it's so cool to see it actually working in real life. Thanks heaps for sharing! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lhb2444 Posted August 11, 2012 Imagine a band where the bass player and guitarist(s) were playing big logs of scop or something along those lines, EPIC! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qualia Posted August 11, 2012 interesting. i heard a while ago about this "sonobotanics" area of research. still not sure if it's junk science or not, but one of these days i'll get around to reading more about it: Sonobotanics is still a widely unknown science; it studies plants whose life experience is predominantly in the auditory domain. Since the 1970’s Dr. Hortensia Audactor has carried out the core research in this area. Despite difficulties encountered in the publication of her results, she has collected a substantial body of research about the growth patterns, communication behavior, and other characteristics of these plants. Recently, the field of Predictive Sonobotanics has been founded, attempting to create models of the plants with the aim of predicting the behavior of sonobotanic plants and to gain a deeper understanding of the subtleties in sonobotanic plant behaviour. In the exhibition models of the Periperceptoida Triquetrus Nutandis and the Periperceptoida Triquetrus Dependis are presented. http://www.sonobotanics.org Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
