In “Materialistic”, VICE News explores the future of ultra-sustainable fashion. In this episode, we explore synthetic silk. In their quest for stronger, more sustainable materials, industrial designers are increasingly looking at the amazing strength and versatility of spider silk. Synthetic versions of this wonder material could go a long way toward making the fashion industry more sustainable.
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Hm….a synthetic spider silk/graphene alloy yarn or layered fabric would be very functional and futuristic. Integrated circuits in the form of ganments that feel like regular clothes 😋
YES LIKE KBLB stock sticker silk company still pennies but future is huge……….
Don't forget. This creature gave Marvel fans its unique super hero, the Spider man🎉
What happened to the goat company? Their goats were so cute and I thought they were able to make product from it.
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Finally something useful
How about spaceships!
5:00 Imagine driving on a biodegradable bridge. Sounds like a great idea.
Maybe if we make jumping spiders bigger, we can just ask them to make silk for us? I’d gladly pamper those cuties and tell them how pretty they are, while people who care about silk just get it from the tap.
Have to wonder about these modified bacteria and their interactions outside of the lab/factory. The big one that is crazy to me is bacteria made to eat plastic… ok now that bacteria gets into the wide and multiplies… we have a lot of plastic we are USING that it could eat.
Spiders are very pissed, that their home is not for sale.
How spiders will save capitalism…
I have videoed and photographed many examples of spiders throughout the past and present so learning about evolution of the use and implementation of their silk is rewarding to experience
What makes today's efforts different that what has been touted as a "revolutionary fiber" for the last 70 yrs? I've heard this all before. And it aways ends because of how hard it is to create the amount of fiber needled to mass produce it.
TIL silk is made by worms.
Why does it keep cutting back to her face in the interview… Shes not saying anything
Lol this entire video is an ad for women's handbags.
Spiders will soon go extinct.
Small detail, but the video of Dr. Shah has a slight tilt to the left that is a bit nausea inducing when cutting back and forth during the interview. Your editor should rotate that video about 3 degrees to the right. It makes the video seem a bit unprofessional especially given that it is composed of mostly zoom call footage. Otherwise interesting concept.
It would be interesting if the synthetic fibres they create that is affected by the environmental conditions (like humidity) were able to produce a self-changing Camouflage materials.
Maybe it would be affected by a specific range of wavelengths of light associated with vegetation or the lack-thereof rather than humidity ?
Lets hope we stop boiling silk worms alive to get silk 😅
Hahaha cricket shirt 😂
Good by Vice…
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Maybe they can save Palestine?
Another reason why spiders are such amazing creatures! I currently own 3
That's what they said about tiny homes or shipping container homes, now they're playthings for the rich, like everything else
Well if you can't do carbon sinks out of them .. then some might say that it's just click bait!