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The Blogging Plant

By Miss Cellania in Blog & Internet on Oct 22, 2008 at 8:36 am


Midori-san is a hoya kerrii, or sweetheart plant, that has its own personal blog!

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 more recent entry was less perky: “It was cloudy today. It was a cold day.”

Link -via Arbroath

I believe this is the link to the blog, but it seems to be overloaded right now.


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  1. Gail Pink
    Oct 22nd, 2008 at 10:52 am

    I find this post very delightful today.

  2. Ali S.
    Oct 22nd, 2008 at 9:02 pm

    I wonder what it'll say when a cat munches on it?

    Blog update: AIEEEE! A cat is EATING me! HELP! D:

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