Tuesday, June 14, 2011

The wonders of science

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has come up with technology that
will develop biologically inspired climbing aids to enable soldiers to scale vertical walls constructed from typical building materials, without using ropes or ladders.
It uses the same idea that allows geckos to climb glass.  Cool stuff.

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