First Look at Soft Drive, a Portable Hard Drive with a Fungus-Based Shell

First Look at Soft Drive, a Portable Hard Drive with a Fungus-Based Shell

Photo credit: Sree Krishna Pillarisetti The Soft Drive, a portable USB storage device, has a truly unique claim to fame: its protective shell is made not of plastic or metal, but of a mixture of mycelium, an underground network of fungal threads, and hemp fibers, with a bioplastic made from waste called polylactic acid blended [...]

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

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 cultivated fungus. And somehow, this makes perfect sense. Enter the Soft Drive, which look…