On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Ben Hunt <ben.g.hunt@gmail.com> wrote:
I like the idea of a plant user interface. They're big enough to mash around without killing them, and (most) don't leave a stinky residue on your hands. I think expression is pretty slow though.
Expression may be slow, but if the system is already expressed but in a 'waiting' state it can be quite fast, look at mimosa pudica and venus flytraps, in the 10s or 100s of milliseconds from touch to mechanical twitch.
I think it'd be cool to have the plant act as an electrical button interface that self-cleaned, put in public and it could reduce disease transmission. You'd need to instead of mechanical twitch, light up, or depolarize a 'nerve' tract in the stem that you could clamp a sensor onto.
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