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Talking Tree Transmits Environmental Conditions to Twitter, Facebook

by Caleb Johnson on September 21, 2010 at 09:00 AM

Tree streams info to Facebook and Twitter.
If a tree speaks in the woods, and nobody's there to hear it, does it make a noise? According to Engadget, some guys from EOS Magazine and Happiness Brussels have rigged a 100-year-old tree with devices that monitor environmental conditions and then post the data to sites like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr via text and photo updates. Talking-Tree.com is the hub for your peek into the daily life of a tree. You can check weather conditions, watch videos, browse photos and read the talking tree's Twitter feed -- all thanks to the dust meter, ozone meter, light meter, weather station, webcam and microphone that are locked inside a metal box strapped to the trunk.

Tags: environment, facebook, green, SocialNetworking, top, tree, trees, twitter

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