Huh. What's it used for?

Clothes! Nice soft drapey ones. It's sometimes called "art silk" but that's short for "artificial" not "artistic".

Ooh! She touches it to assess the texture!

The tassels are about six inches long and the fibers are very fine and light.

Nice! Not the most glamorous of projects, but promising.

Next there is a living plant wall spiced up with chromatophores but they're currently stuck on "paisley". The proprietor blames the guy with the hypno-spores next door.

If hypno-spores are leaking, plant walls being stuck on paisley is the least of everyone's problems. Katie is about to run away, but then remembers that if anyone else tries to hypnotize her Mo will certainly murder them, so she indulges her curiosity.

The spores are actually only supposed to work on dogs. The tagline is "Why Should Cats Have All The Fun? Drug Your Dog!"

 Oh, so it's like catnip, but for dogs? Damn. When are they gonna invent catnip for huma- wait that's weed, that already exists.

Yeah, the blame for the paisley situation is actually because hypno-spores guy bumped into the control equipment for the plants, nothing to do with the spores at all.

Well that's a relief. Katie was worried this would constitute a ceasefire violation and cause some manner of international incident.

Next is a maple tree that produces sap at syrup thickness so it doesn't need to be boiled down, and, as a bonus, boasts superior drought tolerance. The tree on display is about three feet tall and weirdly thick for its height.

How's it taste? Is the color the same?

It tastes kind of mild compared to the kind that's been cooked, like there's a missing caramelization element in there or something, but fine. It's pale.

Disgusting. Katie hopes the person who engineered this thing gets killed before it can be commercialized and drive up the price of the real stuff. The artificial corn syrup Aunt Jemima shit has already done that enough.

Next up: glowing mushrooms content to grow on drywall. It's not great for the drywall but they're downplaying that.

Damn, they really will give anyone a booth at this thing. That's how you get lair collapses, people. Who the hell are they selling this shit to, Dr. Doofenshmirtz?

The mushrooms only take a couple hours to sprout and they seem to be implying that it might be useful for situations where you're ripping up a building down to the studs and have the electricity off, or for long-ish urban exploration excursions, or for a deliberate, uh, crumbling-with-glowing-mushrooms aesthetic.

More useful than just bringing a goddamn flashlight?

Look this guy just really likes his drywall-eating mushroom lights.

He's free to do what he wants with his life, Katie supposes.

Next up: hypoallergenic diurnal hamsters.

Adorable! Katie didn't even know hamster allergies were a common enough thing to warrant circumventing them.

"It's not just that their fur and dander are hypoallergenic! They also prefer completely artificial bedding; no cedar shavings here, they sleep on packing peanuts."

Will they also not get sick from chewing them up?