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Dresses Made from Wine
Horar writes "Australian researchers have combined art and science to make dresses from fermented fabric, using bacteria to 'grow' slimy dresses from wine and beer."
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Could this eventually bring new meaning to "wet t-shirt contest?"
News for girls. That that matters.
This will never take off... we Aussies like to drink our wine and beer not waste it on irrelevant things like clothing
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed (SK)
'free' as in clothing?
Dear Slashdot editors, please refrain from posting further stories with SCARY, zombie-like accompanying pictures. Especially at 3:30 AM, EST. Because now I can't sleep. Thank you.
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
I must be drunk myself. I immediately thought the title was referring to Wine the software instead of the beverage.
"These fashionable dresses are sure to impress, as they are made from a compatibility layer released under the GNU Lesser General Public License."
How Australian to make clothes out of booze :)
I know of easier ways to make your clothes smell like alcohol, ways that actually allow for consumption (although not digestion).
Will this make it easier for overly horny high school males to get their prom dates drunk?
*ducks*
for sale
I'm a self-modifying sig virus
they could get a woman to model the thing instead of some scary looking goth dude....
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Wine is usually used to make dresses disappear.
Australian researchers have combined art and science to make dresses from fermented fabric, using bacteria to 'grow' slimy dresses
Bah. EECS students have been using the "floor pile" method to grow similar clothing for years.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
I can't wait for the edible undies.
You could get drunk and laid at the same time......
I'm all for any clothing technology that requires dresses to be wet or else they fall apart. Either way, we win!
Do not anger the worm.
Next up... real beer goggles.
So? wake me up when they start making wine from dresses..
Is this really news?
Shut up, just shut up. You had me at "Merlot"
You had me at merlot
Now, I wonder when they will invent a way to reverse the process so that I can make wine and beer of my old clothes.
Damn, I thought the Windows compatibility layer "wine" (wine is not an emulator) had finally gotten a skin-system...
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes
From TFA: "As long as we have alcohol, these bacteria will do their job."
Clearly, these bacteria work in my office.
gives new meaning to the idea of edible undergarments
http://wstewart.php0h.com - the sugarbuzz project blog
New fashion created by painting nude girl with glue and rolling her in landfill rubbish .........
So when will the obligatory (and quite enjoyable) ebonics/leet/redneck filter be applied to posts randomly?
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That the fabric gets stronger when wet is an interresting quality. Usually viscosis based products, nomatter how comfortable they may be to wear in the sun, totally disintegrates in heavy showers (yeah, been there ...)
So a combination of this with some oldfashioned 19th century tech might eventually lead to a useful product.
send + more == money?
and, also FTA: Cass is a laboratory technician at the university who, among other things, writes science fiction.
Please forgive me (again), but at 3AM, there are quite a lot of subliminal messages in this article. Of course, I suppose the writer had to have a little humor.
Or a dress to drink.
All humor aside, and some actual logic, you probably couldn't become intoxicated (or at the most, even near intoxicated) from ingesting this dress. In fact, being made mostly of cellulose, it would probably be considred more as a fiber dress, more than anything.
That being said, I guess I'll have to wait for the dress that's really made out of wine, and not several millions layer cellulose made from the fermentation wine.
By the time you're drunk the dress is already off, awesome time saver!
But wait...wine is a liquid...you can't wear liquids! This man is obviously a witch of some kind! And that scary picture is not helping his case...(plus he turned me into a newt...no I haven't got better).
Furthermore, his sheets are much whiter than mine, and he's using an ouiji board to produce these dresses...ouiji boards obviously being some multi-thousand year old old-world device to contact the dead (because, like it or not, the ultimate tool of communication between this world and the next is not some machine like Edison proposed, but in fact a piece of cardboard made by Parker Brothers).
Ginga no Rekshiya Mata Each page.
Must have been great to see the reaction of whoever was checking the bill on this experiment
1. 100 bottles of red wine: $2,000
2. Inflatable doll: $50
3. Models for zombie cavewoman photo shoot: $500
4. Look on UWA accountant's face: Priceless
No more paying to have wine stains taken out of your wife's clothing!
/. joke about girlfriends and wives)
(er, wait... insert standard
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... how about a cocktail dress?
Can they do this with hot grits?
What about dresses removed with wine
I tried that - and it works!
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Yep. when I arrived at a Norwegian airport it seemed the majority of passengers bought either cigarettes or alcohol duty free. I was puzzled to find that the only Aussie wine was Lindemans which is one of the less inspiring reds at home. I realise now that everything is relatively dear in Norway but why not sell the good stuff?
Then again, the Spanish wine they mass import into Australia is rather lame for the price (compared to your average bottle from La Rioja), so it works both ways!
Damn, I thought that Dressing is yet another Cedega or Crossover flavour of Wine...
Not only do geeks have to make a will save against this cave woman creature, but now they'll have to make a fort save from the alcoholic aura this thing radiates. No matter what happens with the fort save, I know the will save will get larger penalties as geeks stay around this creature too long from the intoxicating aura of her cloths.
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
R-Kelly is expected to be back in court for urinating on a young female.
It is believed that he will be using the Fermented Clothing defence.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
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The Monika Lewinsky reference raises the question as to how these dresses will stand up to semen stains.
I'm assuming the Slashdot crowd will generously support the testing effort . . .
I've always found it interesting that you could make textiles from milk proteins. Specifically the casein protein.
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How's that cure for cancer coming guys?
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Naturally, the first thing I thought of was the miracle performed by Our Lord And Saviour, Jesus Christ, when He turned water to wine. Ah, what a blessed event, and what a blessing He was upon us all!
:)
But just think if he'd done this trick, but in reverse - turning women's dresses into wine. Instantaneous result is a naked woman covered in delicious alcohol. I bet it'd be a big hit at parties.
---GEC
I'm but the humble pupil, seeking to snatch the scratchbuilt pebble from the master's fully articulated hand
So now someone is porting clothing to linux?
Cellulose is pretty interesting substance. I've been brewing over the last few months and found the same thing, had the same idea. When my brew was exposed to air thick slimy circles grew on top. At first I expected them to be like gelatin, easily torn and smushed, but they proved remarkably strong. A sharp knife was even hardly useful. Very strange. Anyone who wants to try, get some yeast and boil up some super-saturated sugar water. Wait until the sugar water cools to room temperature(even a little warm to the touch might kill the yeast) and put yeast in. I found that too much exposure to air didn't produce much cellulose, but that a bottle with a small opening produced rather thick slabs(1/2" thick). If I were going to do it again I would try a 2-liter soda bottle filled just up until the top begins to curve with a paper towel rubber-banded over the opening. Then just wait. The cellulose will be the same diameter as the bottle itself, so larger containers will make larger pieces.
I thought the whole point of wine and beer was to get women OUT of their clothes, not into them.
with fish? Oops, I'm getting ahead of myself because that comes much later in the evening.
WOW is that one butt ugly guy!
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ewww.. if I remember properly, that wearable colony of bugs is known as a Mother to many high end vinegar manufacturers. think immortal jellyfish that will live in a vat of high proof grain alchohol, and grow, until all the alchohol is vinegar.. and then is will just Wait.. (bum bum bum)
certainly an interesting application of applied scientist boredom.