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Dresses Made from Wine

Posted by samzenpus on from the julianne-whiskey-pants dept.

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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  1. *burp* by GFree · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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."

  2. Forgive Me, but by Zekasu · · Score: 2, Interesting
    FTA:

    And to get the shape of a dress, they lifted the layers of slimy cellulose off and laid them over a deflatable doll.
    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.
  3. Re:It Won't Go Anywhere by StrahdVZ · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, you send the good stuff too. Australian wine has become very good, and frequently ends up being much better than a lot of the wine coming out of California, for a LOT less. I just say Kudos, and keep it up :-) Although it pains me to think that 1 good bottle exported is 1 less bottle to drink ;), its good to see that the good stuff makes it overseas. It gets me a bit riled up to see bottles you could buy here for A$8 sold overseas for £30 or US$45. That kind of mass marketing of cheap swill threatens to drag down Aussie wine's reputation.

    Thus the earlier cynicism...