The return of flower power

Nagoya firm Let's Corporation (sounds like a Japlish exhortation to start your own company) has come up with a sort of organic counterpart to those fakey sound-activated dancing flowers that were popular for a minute or two a few years ago. Their patented Flower Speaker Amp uses a coil in the base of a flower vase to send sweet musical vibrations through the water and have them emanate from the flowers and leaves themselves. The vase is insulated to stop it buzzing and skittering across your desk, and there's apparently some system to stop big bass tones from shaking the flowers to pieces (we hear it's an exciting new innovation codenamed the "graphic equalizer"), though at normal volume they do shiver visibly. No dancing, though, and definitely no sunglasses. Prices range from Y5,000-Y50,000 depending on the variety. The upper end of the price range is steep enough to make us wonder if top-of-the-line models come with sequoia woofers and orchid tweeters or something.