Coming Soon to The Land...

[Wizzard419]

Plant Molestation! Disney has made a new software/hardware system that turns plants (real or artificial) into physical feedback devices.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcRSKEIu ... r_embedded

Kind of douchey though that Disney wants you to pet a cactus...

[MetalRage]

That's really interesting. Thanks for sharing!

[Amy]

Interesting, but I'm pretty sure most plants prefer not to be touched!

[TikiTikiRoom]

The part where they're touching the plant and it's making music just made my day. Plant bands. We need plant bands.

[MetalRage]

Coming soon to gaming consoles everywhere! Plant Band Hero! Comes with two electric plant guitars, one bass plant guitar, and potting drum set!

[TikiTikiRoom]

Coming soon to gaming consoles everywhere! Plant Band Hero! Comes with two electric plant guitars, one bass plant guitar, and potting drum set!

I call dibs on the cactus drums.

[Amy]

Coming soon to gaming consoles everywhere! Plant Band Hero! Comes with two electric plant guitars, one bass plant guitar, and potting drum set!

I call dibs on the cactus drums.

I don't think you will have too much competition for playing the cactuses...errr, cacti

[MetalRage]

We could call the band "The Raging Cacti" hahaha

[Amy]

We could call the band "The Raging Cacti" hahaha

That would be funny (but I'm still not playing the cacti)

[figmentaholic]

The part where they're touching the plant and it's making music just made my day. Plant bands. We need plant bands.

I guess Robert Plant doesn't count?

[cy1229]

Interesting, but I'm pretty sure most plants prefer not to be touched!

Ok I just took time to watch the video (most of it anyway) and while it's really cool, Amy's thought was exactly my own. How would those plants respond to people touching them all the time? It would almost have to be something super hardy, like a grass, or sturdy, like a woody stemmed plant (tree or shrub). I don't think even rose bushes, with their thorns, would thrive with people grabbing ahold of their stems, leaves, and flowers all the time.

[DisneySpin]

Am I missing something here? So many plants, once we humans start handling them, quickly develop brown areas where touched and die. That's what I got out of that vid. Sheesh, are we that desperate for our own amusement that something as delicate as an orchid should now be our plaything. Bleh, I hope none of my hard-earned tax dollars went into this research.

[Wizzard419]

They also work with silk plants as well.

[mindflipper]

They also work with silk plants as well.

Maybe we can have the test audience try it out on some Toxicodendron radicans or Toxicodendron diversilobum?

[DisneySpin]

They also work with silk plants as well.

Maybe we can have the test audience try it out on some Toxicodendron radicans or Toxicodendron diversilobum?

Or the ever popular Urtica dioica. And yeah, silk plants? Sure, good way to keep the dust off I guess. It sort of makes me tilt my head to think of some future generation, not only interacting with other humans only thru texting, but their sense of plant-life will be in the waiting for the flower to respond on a monitor. Because you know what comes next, soylent green is people! (I know there's no real link there, it's just always fun to throw in once you have a human/plant topic )