a really cool (meaning: futuristic & sci-fi) looking prototype boat debut on the san francisco bay. check out sfgate’s article on spider ship on the bay. this boat called ‘proteus’ and was invented by ugo conti and is a new prototype of wave adaptive modular vessels, or WAM-V for short. the proteus can carry two tons of cargo, has flexible, spider-like legs, can go thousands of miles, ride on shallow water or lagoons, has a cabin that sleeps 4 and can be lowered into the water, and the flexible legs ride & adjust to the surface of the water. there are more pics of the proteus on the sfgate article. looks more like a water strider than a spider to me. but any giant insect-boat look-a-like is totally winning in my book.