Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic?

http://www.ted.com Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and the environment.

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[Dragonslayerkk]

someone give this man a cookie.... not a medal.... they arent bio degradeable

[kendigjl]

I want to be buried in a mycelium coffin.

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[Pierre Marcotte]

Bible-thumpers watching TED talks ? Seems to me you're lost, boy. Science is for grown-ups.

[Bob Kelly]

Available now through a company called Sealed Air in the USA! Under the brand name Restore Mushroom Packaging.

[Gareth Ernst]

phwoar! hes sexy! :)

[lucky258i]

Apparently you've been brainwashed.

[Nam Le]

Apparently not God.

[lucky258i]

And told you this who?

[Bethan Graham-Dolman]

Awsome talk Eben, revolutionary!!!

[Bethan Graham-Dolman]

of course earth is older than 6000 years old!!! how ignorant..

[lucky258i]

Tried and tested for the last billion years? Boy you need some history lessons. Earth isn't more then 6000 years old.