So here's a sentence I never thought I'd write: someone made a USB drive out of mushrooms. Well, technically mycelium, the sprawling fungal network that lives underground and occasionally pops up as the mushrooms we eat. But still. We're talking about storing your family photos, tax documents, and embarrassing early-2000s selfies inside what is essentially
  • GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I was all like WOW, AWESOME!!! Until when I went to the article & found-out it was only the hard drive/?thumb drive? case that was made from mushrooms. I was all in the SciFi future world media, What a let down!

    Sure it is still really cool, removes most of the plastic, so much better for the environment then traditional hard drives/?thumb drives?, but I just bought 2-survivor series thumb drives, from Corsair. They can survive water, dropped & run over, can this even come close to that? doubt it, no thanks, wait for better versions- like completely made from mushrooms.

    • keepthepace@slrpnk.net
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      2 days ago

      Quite frankly I assumed it from the title. Storing data on mushrooms would be something new and it would start at a few KB. Jumping directly to 8GB would require several miniaturization iterations

  • spittingimage
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    6 days ago

    Someone built a biodegradable hard drive CASE Jesus Christ they’re lying to us in the article’s first sentence.

      • Peter1986C@piefed.europe.pubEnglish
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        6 days ago

        This “article” links to a source that admits that that is exactly the case (pun intended). Plus, the pictures (renders?) show “8TB” and the “article” linked to here states 8GB. The linked original source does not state a capacity in the text body (unless I missed it).