When asked about the potential uses of a new Israeli product that is identical to spider webs but these are created in a laboratory.... Fishing rods? All those magnificent uses and fishing rods? That is funny...
Potential industrial uses for the manufactured web -- which has a diameter of one-thousandth of a millimeter -- include surgical thread, bullet-proof vests, micro-conductors, optical fibers and fishing rods.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/12/20/e...ers/index.html