Medicine & TechnologyWho thinks fashion and science can't collaborate? CuteCircuit, a digital fashion line, just proved that these two polar opposites can unite to make a remarkable breakthrough in both disciplines with a "smart dress" made out of graphene.
One of the most amazing materials in nature has got to be spider silk. Although thinner than a human hair, it is stronger by weight than steel, can be stretched up to four times its original length, and is about as durable as Kevlar - of bullet proof vest fame. Yet Italian scientists have recently improved on Mother Nature by applying the latest in nanomaterials technology to those notorious web spinners. Introducing the graphene spiders.