Flower Robots For Your Home 119
Roland Piquepaille writes "Flower robots are not new, and some have already been developed in the US. Now, South Korean researchers have created a robotic plant which acts like real ones. This robot has humidifying, oxygen-producing, aroma-emitting, and kinetic functions. It is about 1.30 meters tall and 40 centimeters in diameter. The robotic plant can interact with people when they approach, and it can 'dance' when music is played. The researchers don't say when a commercial version of their flowers will come to the market. They also don't mention a retail price."
Re:like real ones?... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:First post? (Score:3, Informative)
Yeah, we have 2. 'Xmas in July' which is totally reserved for yuppies which you can catch in the wild in trendy places and then we have the one on the 25th of December when it's sweltering hot and most eat salads and prawns (erm shrimps - no one eats turkey by the way), while we watch the bushfires tearing through the countryside.
Take your pick. And we do our taxes in July and get refunds about 2 weeks later.
Re:First post? (Score:3, Informative)
Troll ? Maybe, but check out this link http://slashdot.org/~rpiquepa [slashdot.org] and wonder for yourself if it is natural that somebody has all their submissions posted to the /. frontpage.
Not a single reject !
At the bottom "(Rejected submissions are not listed.)"
Re:First post? (Score:3, Informative)
I don't know about where you live, but in my area, the xmas crap is alongside the halloween crap.
Seriously, in the first week of October I was seeing retailers with both stuff on display. I remember when the Christmas stuff dutifully waited until after halloween -- I don't think that's the case any more.
Cheers/Humbug