Suzanne Lee: Grow your own clothes

http://www.ted.com Designer Suzanne Lee shares her experiments in growing a kombucha-based material that can be used like fabric or vegetable leather to make clothing. The process is fascinating, the results are beautiful (though there's still one minor drawback ...) and the potential is simply stunning.

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[invent4or]

great idea but hemp fiber is just as good if not better ,and it can be waterproof.

[atheistNalabama]

We already grow clothes...it's called cotton.

[Gr8Success]

thats kinda stupid

[whynottalklikeapirat]

Whoops - sorry, I was looking for "grow your own clones". This is of limited or no use to me in my quest for global dictatorship. Sorry - as you were, carry on pls.

[Taylor Reed]

I think you're all missing the point that this is fucking amazing, sustainable, etc.

[92terminetor]

If this is the future then we all gonna die in winter..

[Gerard Dimayuga]

Acetobacter leuconostoc mesenteroides!



[benjamunji1]

"imagine growing something consumable", I can't even begin to imagine

[rRobert Smith]

will we 3D print out the engine block and grow the shell and tires (of a car)? maybe in about 10 years, of course by then the car will come with enough intelligence to drive itself and run errands for us...

[rRobert Smith]

continuous process industrial engineers are looking at this and wondering if they can scale it up...(yes!)

[sidefack]

Yeah. Cars are a little to complex