exploring the inner workings of plants
Posted in Plant Development, Plant Signaling on Jul 3rd, 2010
And The Winner Is………. At the beginning of this series, I wondered if the impressive array of sensors in the new iPhone rendered it “smarter” than the average plant, at least when it came to sensing and responding to its surroundings. A summary of my comparison is shown in the table below. Briefly, the iPhone [...]
Posted in Plant Development, Plant Signaling on Jun 30th, 2010
Why They Call It A “Smartphone” Arguably, the new iPhone 4 is the most advanced smartphone currently available. But is the iPhone 4 so smart that it’s actually smarter than the average flowering plant? (At least when it comes to sensing and responding to its environment.) This is the question I posed way back here, [...]
Posted in Plant Development, Plant Signaling on Jun 26th, 2010
3D Motion Sensing – iPhone Versus Plant If an iPhone can sense its surroundings better than a plant can, does that make the iPhone more “intelligent”? To try to answer this question, in previous posts, I compared the iPhone’s light and proximity sensors and the geomagnetic sensor to the equivalent (if it existed) in plants. [...]
Posted in Plant Development, Plant Signaling on Jun 26th, 2010
Is the iPhone 4 More Aware of Its Surroundings Than a Typical Plant? That’s the question that I posed in my previous post. Because of the array of sophisticated sensors included in the new iPhone, could this inanimate object actually be better at sensing its environment than a living plant? Last time, I started with [...]
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