Plants and flowers have always been used poetically. Their colours, their beauty have been explored to express different moods or expressions. But it seems, plants have had enough and now they are in mood of expressing their own thoughts. To keep pace with the technology, they have started writing blogs where they express their feelings. This was made possible at Bowls Donburi cafe in Kamakura village in Tokyo, Japan. There’s plant Midori san in the cafe that writes his every day expressions in his blog. Kamakura based IT company KAYAC Co Ltd, has developed a sophisticated botanical interface system that lets plants post their thoughts online. A succulent Sweetheart Hoya (Hoya kerii) named "Midori-san" is now using the system to blog daily.

The plant interface system, which is built around technology developed by Satoshi Kuribayashi at the Keio University Hiroya Tanaka Laboratory, uses surface potential sensors to read the weak bioelectric current flowing across the surface of the leaves. This natural current fluctuates in response to changes in the immediate environment, such as temperature, humidity, vibration, electromagnetic waves and nearby human activity. A specially developed algorithm translates this data into Japanese sentences, which are used as fodder for the plant’s daily blog posts.

Midori-san started blogging about a week ago. So far, the plant’s highly structured posts summarise the day’s weather, temperature and lighting conditions, describe its overall physical condition, tell how much light it received via a user-activated lamp, and explain how much fun the day was.

So beware vegetarians, may be the plants are going to raise their voice against you too.