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Iron Man-inspired material made from DNA and glass is 5x stronger than steel — and 4x lighter::Regular glass is brittle and fragile. But pure glass coated on DNA is a different beast entirely.

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[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These advanced pencils are designed by A.I. and use biological carbon foam encasing stacked layers of graphene!

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about throwing in some ”organic lignin composite nanomaterial” to jazz up the sales pitch. Just imagine the 300 million years of continuous development to form this fine material with extraordinary tensile properties…

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"lignin" was the word I couldn't think of, thanks! I probably should have tried to crowbar "blockchain" in there somewhere.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, totally forgot about blockchains. I wonder if there’s a way to include blockchains, NFTs and cryptocurrencies into a pencil purchase. Maybe each package of pencils could come with an NFT corresponding with the physical objects or something like that. Remember that time when people wanted to buy NFTs corresponding to a part of the world map. Well, why would you want to own the NFT of France when you can own the NFT of this pencil. :D