Toyota Seaweed Car—Wave of the Future?

File this under the strange and infamous. Toyota is building a car... made from seaweed. Yes, seaweed. Short of offering Aquaman a lucrative endorsement contract, I'm not sure how much stranger the concept could be. The crazy part is that the subtle surge of bio plastics into the green car market makes the Toyota sea car thingy pretty ahead of the curve as far as eco-friendly automobiles. It's bio plastic derived from seaweed to be exact, and Toyota is building this technology within the framework of its 1/X plug-in hybrid that premiered at the 2008 Chicago Auto Show.

Plastic made from kelp? Check out the full article Toyota Wants to Build Car From Seaweed over at Wired.com and let me know what you think. I'm intrigued and a bit mesmerized.