Staged inside the world's largest butternut squash, itself a triumph of advanced biotechnology, Biotexpo 2020 literally dwarfed last year's bio-bombshell of giant bonsai trees with a cornucopia of innovations— heralding a future that will be, in one bio-booster's words, "all about tomorrow."
The bio-geniuses at SweetSciences Inc. titillated show attendees with their "Perpetua" chewing gum, a super-secret formula reportedly combining the fundamental genetic codes of sugar, peppermint, and latex rubber for locked-in flavor and ruminant pleasure limited strictly by the durability of the chewer's jawbone.
But that's not the only surprise about to spring from the soil. Anyone for decorator zucchini? Bio-Martha Labs, a division of Martha Stewart Inc., has just bio-designed a whole new line of that once-dowdy fruit in polka-dot, plaid, and Harris tweed, turning any ho-hum 40 acres into a tasteful riot of colors and patterns.
Meanwhile, a word to the biotechnologically wise: Watch Japan! A sensation ...
