this is interesting.. i only copied a few..go to the link for the whole list
because of my mushroom background the insulation idea is something i am going to look into further..because even when you "kill" it.. something lives..and when the right things present themselves..like water and a layer of dust?..dirt?...you get production ..limited but still production...
mycelium is almost impossible to completely kill..so i'm going hunting
i want to know how long they had their little house out in the rain..and a few other things
you guys might like some of the other stuff
have funhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/19/tech-inventions-2013_n_4453556.html?ref=topbar13 Incredible Tech Inventions You Won't Believe You Missed In 2013 The Huffington Post | By Sara Boboltz Posted: 12/19/2013 11:11 am EST | Updated: 12/19/2013 2:39 pm EST
9. A pen that lets you draw 3D stick figures.
10. A real-life version of Harry Potter's Marauder's Map.
11. Home insulation grown out of fungi.
The winning submission to this year's Buckminster Fuller Challenge, a $100K prize doled out to the most socially responsible design, was Ecovative's mycological biomaterial. College buddies Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre came up with the idea to use fungi as a binding agent while studying engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York back in 2007. Their eco-friendly material could replace existing plastic foams -- which are both non-recyclable and petroleum-based -- with a substitute derived from fungi for applications in furniture, building insulation, and even footwear or surfboards.
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12. A font that can fool the NSA.
(Vimeo)
Like invisible ink for the digital age, Sang Mun created a rebellious way to type covert messages only decodable by human eyes. (Or we can pretend it does, anyway -- hackers have pointed out it's not totally effective.)
Mun, a recent graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, created a typeface called ZXX intended to fool text-scanning programs in protest of the National Security Agency's surveillance programs that were brought to light this year. The font gets its name from the coding system the Library of Congress' uses to label a book's written language. "ZXX" indicates "no linguistic content." It's free to download online
edit..forgot to add youie link
