Living wearables from slime mould and fungi

Adamatzky, Andrew; Nikolaidou, Anna; Gandia, Antoni; Chiolerio, Alessandro

Abstract

Smart wearables, augmented with soft and liquid electronics, can display sensing, responsive and adaptive capabilities, but they cannot self-grow or self-repair. Living organisms colonising a fabric could be a viable alternative. In the present article we briefly review our ideas on implementing living wearables with slime mould and fungi. The living networks of slime mould protoplasmic tubes and fungal mycelium networks can act as distributed sensorial networks, fuse sensorial inputs from wearers and environment, process information in a massive parallel manner and provide responses in benefit of the consortium human-microbe.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 15, 2020
• Publication Date: 2021-01
• Deposit Date: Feb 25, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 3, 2021
• Journal: LINKs- series
• Electronic ISSN: 2592-6756
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 93-98
• Keywords: Fungi, Wearables, Biosensing, Unconventional computing
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7148189
• Publisher URL: https://links-series.com/links-series-special-edition-1-unconventional-computing/