For anyone that saw the movie, which I did, and it was a total freak out back in its day.................. read THIS! Researchers at Rice University in Houston figured out how to give new life to dead spiders. It turns out all you need is a needle, glue and a syringe. Daniel Preston, a professor, and Faye Yap, a graduate student, at the Texas university's engineering school published a report in a science journal Monday about how their research team was able to repurpose dead spiders as miniature grippers, not unlike the ones inside arcade claw machines.