Well, they don't really talk, but a company has created a sensor that allows your houseplants to twitter their needs to you. Great- just what I need, a plant that sends death threats or calls Peetrap (PEople for the Ethical TReAtment of Plants) to turn me in for cruelty 
I wonder if the plants will have time to twitter for help if my cat gets the nibbles?
Here is the link:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2009/0101-thirsty_plants_text_for_help.htm I don't understand. It's a soil-moisture sensor. How can they say the plant is communicating when it is really only sensing the moisture in the soil? Got me guilty though. Better water my plants, have not done it for a few days ...
is that somthing that was really worth the millions of dollars spent on research and development....i mean really cant you just eaither remember to water yourself or throw it out when it dies...really ticks me off to see what our taxes go to every year.
^^ Seriously! This was a total waste of money. If people are getting so reliant on technology that they need it to remember to water plants, God help us, 'cause we need it!
Wasn't this a private company that developed this technology? So that's not really a waste of tax dollars... Besides, if it's sold, it may make money. Also, I'd hardly consider something that leads to the advancement of human knowledge to be a waste of money...
Well, this doesn't advance human knowledge and it didn't cost millions of dollars in R&D. It's just a soil moisture sensor. It beeps if the soil dries, and has nothing to do with the plant at all. If you put it in a pot without a plant in it, it would still beep when the soil dried out.
There is nothing mysterious about soil drying. Biologists have had various ways of measuring soil water content for centuries, and plant water status (i.e. how thirsty a plant is) for decades. This is just an example of stupid journalism sensationalizing a barely interesting retail product.
Yep, yet another example of a lame use of technology. I just wish I had thought of it first 
Well,its just a marketing ploy
Talkin plant my ass
I find it amusing to see all the "ingenious" yet totally unnecessary things people can create! Specially in the US. When I first moved here I started taking my camera to the grocery store to take pictures of all the ridiculous and unnecessary things being sold (and bought!!!). My personal favorite was this can opener to open the cans that already came with easy opener....ahahahahaha!
plants dont have brains, and they dont have nervous system.
| supernova1987a wrote: |
| plants dont have brains, and they dont have nervous system. |
Not a nervous system, but some plants do have systems that take on the same role, only they operate by chemicals, instead of electrical signals and chemicals... Now, whether or not any of these simple pseudo-nervous systems have what could be described as a central nervous system is questionable.I saw a (not so good) horror movie of trees getting mad at the human race and emitting chemicals that caused humans to commit suicide. Quite a thought Maybe plants are already getting at humans with emitting pollens during the in between season as humans seem to be growing more an more allergic to pollen with awful consequences for sinusses, hayfever etc. Great point about the trees! Ocalhoun is wrong: plants do have very advanced nervous systems which we humans have been unable to unveil. The proof? Pollen! Dean hit the nail on the head: plants are actively conspiring to take over the world (revenge against vegetarians, perhaps?) by spraying us with pollen. Here in Atlanta, Georgia, the pollen count is over 600 particle per L today, and will soon be in the thousands.
Now, if Deanhills could tell us how the movie ended, we can take appropriate action to save the human race. Humans did win in the end, didn't we?
| Voodoocat wrote: |
Great point about the trees! Ocalhoun is wrong: plants do have very advanced nervous systems which we humans have been unable to unveil. The proof? Pollen! Dean hit the nail on the head: plants are actively conspiring to take over the world (revenge against vegetarians, perhaps?) by spraying us with pollen. Here in Atlanta, Georgia, the pollen count is over 600 particle per L today, and will soon be in the thousands.
Now, if Deanhills could tell us how the movie ended, we can take appropriate action to save the human race. Humans did win in the end, didn't we? |
This movie ended with a sting in the tail. As at the end of it it looked as though the hero and heroine of the movie and an orphan survived. Then the movie shifted from the United States (New York) to a Park with trees somewhere in Europe, Paris I think it was, and there was a snapshot of people reacting again. Sort of being disorientated and frozen on the spot, it has started again ..... but the end of the movie ... Uh oh! I'm heading out to buy some round-up right now! 
| Voodoocat wrote: |
Great point about the trees! Ocalhoun is wrong: plants do have very advanced nervous systems which we humans have been unable to unveil. The proof? Pollen! Dean hit the nail on the head: plants are actively conspiring to take over the world (revenge against vegetarians, perhaps?) by spraying us with pollen. Here in Atlanta, Georgia, the pollen count is over 600 particle per L today, and will soon be in the thousands.
Now, if Deanhills could tell us how the movie ended, we can take appropriate action to save the human race. Humans did win in the end, didn't we? |
haha, maybe H5N1 came because u ate too much chicken, we killed a lot. and mad cow disease cos u killed and ate too much cow. aids came cos u had too much sex. blah blah
stop eating now! and be saved! M. Night Shamalan's "The Happening" - the trees started producing an pheremone that influenced human behavior as a survival mechanism because the human population was getting too big.
Only a so-so movie. I can't even remember why the attack stopped.
As far as wirelessly connected soil-moisture sensors - farmers have been using them for a while to monitor their crops so they can decide the best times to irrigate. The twittering houseplant version is just a smaller scale use of the same tech.
Interactive Telecommunications Researchers Develop A Device For Plants To Send Text Messages????
its like the plant is like humans ^^
