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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)
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 :)
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
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'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?
From TFA: "As long as we have alcohol, these bacteria will do their job."
Clearly, these bacteria work in my office.
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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!
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
Unfortunately, I think somewhere in my room, some of my clothes are already working on that.
... how about a cocktail dress?
What about dresses removed with wine
I tried that - and it works!
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