Strom Fishing Lures Use Nanotach to Catch Four Times More Fish

Charlie White — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:48:49 EDT

Nanotech is creeping into our lives, and now it surfaces in fishing lures, where vacuum equipment manufacturer Ulvac has created Strom, an especially shiny fishing lure with an optical coating that uses nanotechnology. The trick here is its holographic color that keeps its shininess regardless of the viewing angle. That will theoretically attract the attention of veritable universities of fish.

According to the manufacturer's tests, these Strom lures caught four times more fish than other lures. The manufacturer failed to mention that those competing lures were covered with dogshit. Anyway, the Strom lure will be available in two types, one that weighs 2.4g and another at 3.7g, and both go on sale online next month for $25. – Charlie White

Fishing with nanotech [Pink Tentacle]

Million-Dollar Fishing Lure

Charlie White — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:03:17 EDT

We've heard about diamond-encrusted earphones, a million-dollar cellphone spangled with glitter, an MP3 player of diamonds and gold and even a Kodak V570 digital camera festooned with $20,000 worth of shiny rocks. But this one takes the cake, the million-dollar fishing lure from MacDaddy's Fishing Lures. It's made of three pounds of gold and platinum, and encrusted with 100 carats of diamonds and rubies—4753 stones in all. It's over a foot long, and is designed for big-game fishermen who are looking to hook the next Moby Dick. Or something.

It's easy for us to figure out what is actually being lured here: profligate suckers with more money than brains. C'mon, give that money to the Steve and Laurene Jobs Foundation. Oh, wait, there's no such thing. – Charlie White

Big pic of the lure after the jump.

Product Page [MacDaddy's Fishing Lures, via Born Rich]

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Strom Fishing Lures Use Nanotach to Catch Four Times More Fish

Million-Dollar Fishing Lure