Kombucha cultures can be turned into flexible electric circuit boards

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The skin of yeast and bacterial cells that forms on the brewed drink kombucha could be used to make cheap, flexible circuit boards for wearable electronics like heart monitors or even partially living computers

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Yummy.

We’ve been going through 10 litres of our home brew kombucha every 6 days for a couple of years. Never occurred to me to try making a heart monitor using the scoby!

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