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" Gentlemen, the time has come. We are now living in a new age. An amazing age where a man can climb a building using nothing but some specially designed gloves. That&amp;#039;s right, because Stanford mechanical engineer Elliot Hawkes just revealed gloves that mimic a gecko&amp;#039;s foot with enough strength to support a grown man&amp;#039;s full weight. Hawkes claims they can support 200 pounds.      But how is this possible? Well, Hawkes and his colleagues created a gecko-like dry-adhesive material called PDMS microwedges, that utilizes hairy nanofibers to grip a smooth surface using electromagnetic attraction. Then, using some insane thing called &amp;quot;shape-memory alloy,&amp;quot; researchers attached these microwedges flat plate to create the surface area necessary to hold a human. Hawkes explains: &amp;quot;To work,&amp;quot; Hawkes says, &amp;quot;the surface you&amp;#039;re climbing needs to be relatively smooth; like glass, varnished wood, polished stone, or metal.&amp;quot; It takes very little effort to attach and detach from the surface, according to Hawkes, and to make the gloves stick, &amp;quot;all you have to do is hang your weight.&amp;quot; The surface you&amp;#039;re climbing on must also be dry. Limited to certain surfaces or not, these gloves rule. Sign us up for a pair if they ever go on sale.  [H/T Newsweek] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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