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Klint Finley : "[…] That’s right : We’re on our way to the Internet of plants. That’s the message from Andrea Vitaletti, the head of a blue-sky research group working on this very thing at a lab in Italy. The project is called PLEASED : for PLants Employed As SEnsing Devices. Though the project is still in the early stages, Vitaletti believes plants could serve as ideal sensors, monitoring so many aspects of our environment. Plants are cheap and resilient, he argues, and they could potentially monitor many different things simultaneously…

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> PLants Employed As SEnsing Devices : http://bit.ly/1frPjh4

> Other, the interspecies : http://sco.lt/9LGigL

At recent TED 2013, Diana Reiss, Peter Gabriel, Neil Gershenfeld, and Vint Cerf launched the idea of the “interspecies internet”. Diana Reiss […] has been been teaching dolphins to communicate through an underwater keyboard of symbols that correspond to whistles and playful activities. Peter Gabriel shared a video of a bonobo with a keyboard ; and with accompaniment, she played truly amazing music. Neil Gershenfeld […] thinks animals can be a part of it, too : ”We’re starting to think about how you integrate the rest of the biomass of the planet into the Internet” he says. Vint Cerf […] noted that “We thought we were building a system to connect computers together. But we quickly learned that it’s a system for connecting people…

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Brain-net : http://bit.ly/Yb16EE