A Plant Joins the Blogosphere
 The Telegraph reports that a pot plant named Midori-san has joined the blogosphere. Midori-san's short entries include a self-photo and comments about the weather like, "It was cloudy today. It was a cold day."
Midori-san, which lives on the counter of a Japanese café, writes regular updates with the help of sensors attached to its leaves.
The detectors pick up electronic signals on the surface of the plant, which responds to light and human touch.
The data is then combined with weather and temperature information and translated into chatty blog posts using a computer algorithm.
"Today was a sunny day and I was able to sunbathe a lot... I had quite a bit of fun today," it wrote on October 16 from its cafe in Kamakura, near Tokyo.
A post on Pink Tentacle has a diagram of the plant interface system used so Midori-san can blog. There's also been a plant named pothos that has been twittering since February, 2008. The tweets from Pothos get more urgent when Pothos needs water.
Here's a video from the Telegraph about Midori-san.
Posted on October 25, 2008
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