“In fact, Forbes has called the fishing hook one of the top 20 most important inventions in the history of the world—it’s fed the ­people on this planet a thousand times over. A design patent is just ...

The octopus hook design is a great all-around hook for live bait fishing, drifting beads or bait, and even swinging flies. A lot of anglers like to fish various dough baits or egg sacks for trout ...

but offers a promising controls-based solution to the shortcomings of our gait design. No doubt we will all now want to build cockroaches that will out perform the T-RHex. Embedding fish hooks ...