"The longer poles recruit the abdominal and upper body muscles, " says JonathanChang, a clinical associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Southern California in Alhambra, Calif.
Off the top of my head: Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Chang-rae Lee, Mary Karr, Mary Gaitskill, Edwidge Danticat, Edmund White, and about a hundred others.
The fabric Jonathan Engel and Chang Liu have produced has a similar strength to nylon and can conduct electricity thanks to the way it is formed by interlocking rings and rectangles of about 500 microns in width.