On: Mylo: A leather-like material made from mycelium

[nn3]

How do they kill the fungus? I hope it won't continue growing if you wear it.

[_fq4v → nn3]

A lot of people have issues buying clothes that they outgrow a few years down the line. This is clearly the solution to expanding waistlines.

[Gibbon1 → _fq4v]

I've long joked we're going to create clothes out of fungus that lives off dead skin cells. And cure baldness the same way using Lichen that looks like luxurious hair.

[ramy_d → Gibbon1]

that is super cool and hilarious.

[echlebek → nn3]

It's tanned, so I'm betting it's quite dead.

[pohl → nn3]

If the cow doesn't, why would the fungus?

[PeterisP → pohl]

Random tiny fragments of cows don't cause cows growing around my house or on my stuff. Fungus/mold does that.

[paulific → PeterisP]

That sounds like a great science fiction story though!

[nn3 → pohl]

A fungus is a much more distributed organism than a cow?

It's not that it has a throat to cut or a brain to kill.

[jlebrech → nn3]

self repairing clothes