A Smartphone made with Mushrooms?!

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1. Magic of mushroom

2. That's so cool zack!

3. That was a great loop, holy crap

4. just look up that handle above, he ship swifty and he got shrooms, DMT, LSD, salva, indica, chocolate bar and psychedelic products

5. I'm curious about your thoughts on the cobalt issue in the Congo…

6. Waiting for biodegradable phones of future

7. Wow a lot of mushrooms in the world most of them are poisonous but I never dreamed a mushroom in a cell phone but I do like paintings and jigsaw puzzles and pictures of mushrooms imagine that a screensaver with mushrooms on it anything is possible who knows maybe they are mushrooms and outer space I have had mushrooms growing in the bathroom believe it or not I moved in a shack next to a slaughterhouse and yes they was mushrooms growing in the bathroom we even had rats and all right across from free water it is known as a Johnson residence Irvington nothing like a run-down Shack

8. Badger!

9. we shouldnt be treating electronics like they are disposable. thats the problem, not the fact that plastic circuit boards arent biodegradable

10. Ah yes, I’ve always wanted my phone to degrade overtime in humidity.

11. wow, great idea

12. I love the effort to loop these shorts. As I watch shorts as a video changing the URL with (watch?v=) I end up getting confused initially then realise what has happened.

13. Electronics engineer here, no just no, this is pure clickbait sci-fi bullcrap. Here's why:
    (A) Nobody is going to retool IC assembly lines, change dies to utilize the new substrate, that cost's too much.
    (B) This has a negligible effect on sustainability, oh yay you replaced the 10% of plastic with fungi, but you still have the silicon die, the FR4 board, the copper in the PCB, solder, etc.
    (C) Plastic is a cheap, reliable way to seal and insulate a wafer, Fungi doesn't have the same vetting! IE – If you're going to spend 200 million dollars to do a fab run, you're not going to use a technology like this.

    The real solution to a sustainable future is simply to buy used devices instead of new crap and fix/recycle your broken electronics. Biodegradable electronics is not going to happen and will just make the problem worse since products that use them will need to be replaced quicker (since they biodegrade).

14. Awesome, but please use metric sys

15. now that's Innovative

16. great idea

17. Where is your giveaway Drow results?

18. If they're composting in 2 weeks how do we keep them from doing so while it's inside the phone?

19. Great loop

20. Hey Jerry how do u get such a close shave on the dome brother?

21. This is groundbreaking, but phone manufacturer logic goes

    literal magic mushroom thats literally a W in every way used
    removing charger from the box to save the whole multiverse from a hyper intelligent alien species invasion (aka. courage)

22. Mamma mia! It's-a perfect!

23. Phone dies quickly because within weeks it grows over the phone

24. "Sir, I swear these are fffoor…..electronics"

25. There is a way to substitute cobalt? That would be a big change

26. Is it magic mushroom?

27. As long as they don't keep you in the dark and feed you on BS then that's fine

28. Not sorry!
    Shorts ARE shit!!!

29. Innovations/discoveries like these don't mean anything, what matters is how fast/much can we make it, way more than how it's actually made.

30. not anytime soon with high density multi layer pcbs like the ones in laptops and smartphones

31. Everyone saying "it'll degrade so it's not viable" that's not necessarily true. It'll be enclosed in a sealed metal frame. Bio-degradable means you need insects and/or bacteria for that to start happening. This is why when someone dies inside a house and isn't found for an extended period of time they may not be degraded or fully degraded. Basically what you need to degrade is found in soil. Liquid damage could be very well be even more catastrophic than it is now however.

32. Imagine your phone quit working because it biodegraded

33. Very weird but excited

34. All fun and game till the phone starts to biodegrade before its done being used.

35. so my phone could literally rot after a while not using it

36. Yes they will be biodegradable, but thats only the mushroom part, what about the millions of components sitting on that mushroom?

37. That's pretty awesome. We need more products like that

38. I'm still hopeful for mushroom leather

39. But how are they going to mass manufacture it? I doubt a factory dealing in electronics will have the capabilities for fungi storage

40. I always kick those mushrooms.

41. This idea is stupid. “Gotta buy a new phone, my current one is biodegrading”

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