Jul
02
2010

Geek of the WeeK: 13-Year-Old Makes Wall-Climbing Vacuum Suit!

With the casting of Spider-Man just announced it’s only appropriate that our Geek of the Week can actually clim up walls using a vacuum suit that he invented. The the vacuum powered wall-climbing suit was made by 13-year-old Hibiki Kono. He can now go out in the world as a real live superhero, it’s like a character right out of The Tick universe known as Vacuum Man.

Using a pair of 1,400-watt vacuums he purchased at UK retailer Tesco, Hibiki Kono hooked them up to a couple of large suction pads, and proceeded to ascend a vertical surface with the contraption strapped to his back and arms.

So what do you think of that Dyson! Check out the video of Vacuum Man below.

Read more from the original source:
Geek of the WeeK: 13-Year-Old Makes Wall-Climbing Vacuum Suit!

Written by Staff in: GeekTyrant.com |

No Comments »

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL


Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

adsense

Cool-O-Rama: News for Geeks