Functional Fungal

I love looking for new things to add to the background for my AtB games, and here is one that just crossed my radar.

Amsterdam designer Maurizio Montalti is working on using fungal organisms to replace, or act as an alternative, to plastics.  As you will see in the video below, he shows how he has used this to produce bowls, plates and cups.  He also discusses how it could be used for textiles (jackets, shoes, etc.).



Using nature to grow products isn't anything new, and in one book I recently read (The Commonwealth Saga, by Peter F. Hamilton), they used a type of coral to grow buildings.

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