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How about hearing some Treetalk?
May 15 2008, Jayaprashanth

Here is an invention that doesn’t claim to change the world but will just give us the pleasure of listening to what goes on inside a tree. As most of us would already know, trees suck up water and nutrients through their natural plumbing system...

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