The Itsy Bitsy Spider Inspired a Microphone

If spiders use their webs like a large external eardrum, researchers reasoned, perhaps spider silk could be the basis for a powerful listening device. Spiders, Acoustics, Ears and Hearing, Inventions and Patents, Engineering and Engineers, Research, Acoustical Society of America, your-feed-science, your-feed-animals, Silk and Silk Goods NYT > Health

​If spiders use their webs like a large external eardrum, researchers reasoned, perhaps spider silk could be the basis for a powerful listening device. 

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