Scientists develop gecko-inspired glass climbing technology, perfect for your next Spiderman costume!

Three frames from a video (below) showing a 70 kg climber ascending a 3.7 m vertical glass surface using a synthetic adhesion system with degressive load-sharing and gecko-inspired adhesives.Even though I still really want a jetpack, I'm pretty stoked about this new technology developed by scientists at Stanford University. Inspired by the incredible climbing ability of geckos, they developed a synthetic material that allows full-grown adults to scale glass skyscrapers, just like Spiderman! Be sure to check out the awesome video below!Human climbing with efficiently scaled gecko-inspired dry adhesives. "Since the discovery of the mechanism of adhesion in geckos, many synthetic dry adhesives have been developed with desirable gecko-like properties such as reusability, directionality, self-cleaning ability, rough surface adhesion and high adhesive stress. However, fully exploiting these adhesives in practical applications at different length scales requires efficient scaling (i.e. with little loss in adhesion as area grows). Just as natural ...