© 2017 HCII Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Living Tea

2015

Living tea leaf: the tea leaf is activated by heat and steam as tea is steeped. The initially curled tea leaf will open up when the tea is ready.

  • Lining Yao, Wen Wang, Guanyun Wang, Helene Steiner, Chin-Yi Cheng, Jifei Ou, Oksana Anilionyte, Hiroshi Ishii

  • Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab

It is made of the bio-hybrid material developed for bioLogic project. Please refer to the paper for technical and research details.

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