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Hear plants play your favourite tune on the "Ikebana Speaker"
Tue, 01 Jan 2008
ANI
London, June 28 (ANI): A Japanese engineer has transformed a potted plant into an "Ikebana Speaker" that makes leaves vibrate and produces sound.
The speakers, brainchild of Tokyo Keiji Koga, use real plant parts - stems to conduct sound waves, leaves and flowers to serve as cones - to fill a 16ft radius with music, reports Times Online.
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A magnet and coil at the base of the vase hooks up to a CD player.
And following that relays the sound vibrations up the stems.
The quality has been described as closer to vinyl than a CD. (ANI)
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