Boy Builds Wall-Climbing Machine Using Recycled Vacuums 96
Joe McIntosh writes "Hibiki Kono just might be a boy genius. The 13-year-old decided he wanted to climb vertical surfaces like his hero, Spiderman. So, he used two 1,400-watt recycled vacuum cleaners and a little bit of elbow grease to make a machine that allows him to scale walls. Kono has been scaling the walls of his UK school and has told the media that he hopes his invention will help window washers eliminate clumsy ladders from their daily routine."
Mother (Score:5, Funny)
and mother likes it because it cleans the wall on the way up.
Oh no he didn't! (Score:4, Funny)
Because didn't Adam fall down a lot on his during the Mythbusters attempt?
Re:Oh no he didn't! (Score:2, Funny)
So you are mythbusting the Mythbusters? I hear recursion is also a myth.
Re:Mother (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Windowcleaning (Score:3, Funny)
what abuot a building that is 20+ floors tall?
Guys in rock climbing gear repelling down the wall. I heard this story about a room full of women learning how to breast feed...
Re:The kid is smart, the techurs not so much (Score:3, Funny)
The kid should have been roped off for this stunt, not kind of sort of assisted by the naughty vicar there.
The Vicar has already seen the boy "roped off", the element of suction adds more excitement to it.
Re:Oh no he didn't! (Score:5, Funny)
But that's not to say it might not have an application some day right? Say like, having to venture outside of the international space station a`la R2D2 to fix a power coupling or something. Just saying!
I'm no physicist, but I'm guessing that a vacuum suction system in space will be about as effective as a ShamWow at the bottom of the ocean.