Joanna Carver, reporter
This bullet-dodging hybrid skin comes in at number 4 in our best videos of 2012 countdown.
Imagine facing a speeding bullet without fear of it tearing through your flesh. By reinforcing human skin cells with spider silk, artist Jalila Essaïdi has designed a futuristic material that could make this scenario plausible.
Spider-silk weaves are actually four times stronger than Kevlar, which explains why a half-speed bullet can't penetrate the hybrid skin in the video. However, when it meets a full-speed bullet, traveling at 329 metres per second, it's unable to stop it.
To find out more about the many applications of super-sturdy spider silk, read our full-length feature "Stretching spider silk to its high-tech limits". For more about Essaïdi's project, check out our original post, "Bulletproof skin stops a speeding gunshot".
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