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Someone Built a Biodegradable 8GB Hard Drive Out of Mushrooms - Yanko Design
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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.
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