Hear plants play your favourite tune on the "Ikebana Speaker"

ANI

Tue, 01 Jan 2008: 

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 radiusith music, reports Times Online.

 

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)