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Imagine flanking your home stereo with birds of paradise rather than a pair of speakers. The Ka-on flower speaker, housed in a vase, below, or pot, uses real plant parts--stems to conduct sound waves, leaves and flowers to serve as cones--to fill a 16-ft. radius with music. Its audio quality is closer to that of a vinyl record than a CD, but for some audiophiles, that's a good thing...
...begins to emit gentle music. Has your green tea been spiked? No, the management has invested in a Ka-on, a device from Nagoya-based telecom equipment maker Let's Corp. (www.lets-co.co.jp) that turns any posy into a loudspeaker. The Ka-on (Japanese for flower sound) consists of a vase into which users insert floral designs?the works are hidden in the base. Hook it up to a CD player, stereo or TV, and the Ka-on relays the sound up the plants' stems. According to the company, gerberas and sunflowers perform well, and they'd suit the gentle strum...
...ancient Egyptians believed that artifacts placed in the tomb would ensure a comfortable existence in the afterlife; unlike the tombs of most pharaohs, Tut's was not robbed, so many of these objects survived. Among those on display are Tut's crown, an ebony game board, an alabaster ointment vase, a painted wood figurine of a snake god with wings and a human head (pictured) and a statuette of an Egyptian deity, Ptah, made from gilded wood and faience. The museum is expecting half a million visitors; tickets can be ordered online at www.tutankhamun.ch...
...example, Gore said throughout history people have engaged in wars, illustrating his point with a slide of an ancient Greek vase with two figures battling...
...panel each.) Attributed to Barthélemy d'Eyck, the magnificent altarpiece, depicting an angel appearing to the Virgin Mary, conceals the devils in its details: a dragon and a bat in the Gothic arches above the angel's head, a monkey dancing on Mary's lectern, a vase on the floor holding foxglove, belladonna and basil - all three sorcerers' plants...