CNET News - Gecko-inspired adhesive lets you climb walls

Mechanical engineers at Stanford University have developed a substance that mimics gecko toes. Not just for scaling walls in Spiderman-like fashion, the adhesive could help clean up space debris and be used on automobile assembly lines.CNET's Sumi Das visits the research lab where it was created to learn how it works.

[Prence]

I just want some of that for my cell phone holder in my car. The suction cup that's attached to the cell phone holder sucks balls.

[PassportBrosBusinessClass]

Mission Impossible 4 and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare already did it...

[eekpeek]

SPIDER-MAN SPIDER-MAN DOES WHATEVER A SPIDER CAN

[PassportBrosBusinessClass]

It is 100% guaranteed to malfunction as soon as you are in a situation where you can fall to your death. 

[theenchanteddiamondofall]

Dang it i wanted to have spider mans one iconic ability

[GaneshGanesh-xipg]

How did you turn the carbon string into this flat thing. Please reply

[lionelonkruid]

I just wanna know how to make them for my own knowledge

[rougegamingandrapsofficial]

Im gonna bookmark this to try and use it for research if im gonna create this

[alfianfahmi]

So it's just like a hundreds of suction cups compacted in a small surface area?

[brianlovasco]

Kevin Boudreau Chang Gao pretty sure Umass was doing research on this too

[zackbaum]

If we used this and cut it out to the shapes of our hand and feet we could climb walls, right?

[milootje]

This has been done ago by prototype this... and they act like they invented the light lol xD

[aegystierone]

Will it work upside down? Lizards can do it...