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Whats the point of using such a good invention for making shoes? What is the right kind of application for using spider silk?

• kontorlaore 7y ago
  It's probably extremely expensive, so you need to use it in very high value products.
• gingabriska 7y ago
  It's just a concept shoe made from spider silk. There can be many more application. It's biodegradable (I guess) so probably we can use it to replace plastics. Instead of plastic or metal or wood, we might end up using proteins.
  • agumonkey 7y ago
    I can really take stronger biodegradable grocery bags. The corn plastic based ones are an exercise in softness.
  • dymk 7y ago
    They were pretty adamant about how it didn’t biodegrade - “you can have a spiders web that doesn’t break down for hundreds of years”
• Pfhreak 7y ago
  Showing that their material has a breadth of applications, and can be worked into different shapes and contexts? To be clear, they used their invention to make a shoe.
• ianai 7y ago
  Shoes get literally kicked around a lot. It’s a good form factor for demonstrating durable, flexible strength. Just show it kicking something that would shred a lesser material. The silk is also hard for bacteria to break down. So maybe as a shoe it would be less smelly than other fabrics over time?
• maxerickson 7y ago
  Leather was a pretty great invention too.
• DoreenMichele 7y ago
  I have no idea what we should make with it, but we currently make clothes out of it: https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/world-s-rarest-textile-made-silk-one-million-spiders-009010 https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/wo...
• ohiovr 7y ago
  Maybe a really fast slingshot?