• The Dr. Frankenstein Making Electronic Plants
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[url]http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/09/explore-electrified-plants/[/url] [QUOTE]scientists in Sweden have taken ordinary roses, from a local flower shop, and electrified them by incorporating circuits into the plants’ living tissue. The transformation is not as far-fetched as it may seem. A plant’s vascular system transmits chemical signals much as electronic circuits transmit currents. To merge the two, physicist Eleni Stavrinidou and her colleagues placed the cut end of a rose into a diluted polymer solution. Once absorbed, the polymer reorganized itself into an electrical wire that extended through the xylem, the system of water transport channels inside the rose’s stem. Add voltage, and the plant could conduct electricity.[/QUOTE]
Ok, this is amazing as shit. We could learn so much more about how plants work at a cellular level this way.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;50999200]Ok, this is amazing as shit. We could learn so much more about how plants work at a cellular level this way.[/QUOTE] Entire forests as our power lines and our memes sent through the world wide wood web. Cyborg trees as far as the eye can see. Someone please draw such a thing. Its cyberpunk as shit.
Bio-architecture CPUs on the way.
this is pretty cool, I wonder if in the future we can make wires fix themselves this way
Holy crap, that meme image about people protecting trees if they transmitted wifi... someone took it seriously.
[QUOTE=Craigewan;50999332]Holy crap, that meme image about people protecting trees if they transmitted wifi... someone took it seriously.[/QUOTE] What image?
Unless I'm reading this wrong, the plant absorbs the polymer and forms electrical pathways as it grows? Now that's fucking amazing. If we could genetically engineer plants to produce this polymer naturally, then we have ourselves a new form of life on our hands, fucking cyberflora.
[video=youtube;fOlcTuUt580]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOlcTuUt580[/video]
[QUOTE=Guriosity;50999204]Entire forests as our power lines and our memes sent through the world wide wood web. Cyborg trees as far as the eye can see. Someone please draw such a thing. Its cyberpunk as shit.[/QUOTE] trees with power sockets.
[QUOTE=Guriosity;50999204]Entire forests as our power lines and our memes sent through the world wide wood web. Cyborg trees as far as the eye can see. Someone please draw such a thing. Its cyberpunk as shit.[/QUOTE] Basically the forests in Avatar.
the article makes it seem so simple to make and do.
Imagine a planet seeded with "cyberflora" by some clan of kooky precursors. That would be a botanist's wet dream.
i remember hearing about this a few months back, its cool ass shit [editline]4th September 2016[/editline] we're also working on [URL="http://pleased-fp7.eu/"]ways to use plants as sensors themselves[/URL], so there's more of this style of use to them than just transporting and generating electrical signals [editline]4th September 2016[/editline] for anyone who wants it, here is the research paper for the article in the OP as it does not seem to reference it [url]http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/10/e1501136.full[/url]
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