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Boy Builds Wall-Climbing Machine Using Recycled Vacuums

Posted by samzenpus on from the hello-true-believers dept.

Joe McIntosh writes "Hibiki Kono just might be a boy genius. The 13-year-old decided he wanted to climb vertical surfaces like his hero, Spiderman. So, he used two 1,400-watt recycled vacuum cleaners and a little bit of elbow grease to make a machine that allows him to scale walls. Kono has been scaling the walls of his UK school and has told the media that he hopes his invention will help window washers eliminate clumsy ladders from their daily routine."

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  1. particularly on skyscrapers by spazdor · · Score: 2, Informative

    Window washers may also want to carry around a UPS on their backs.

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  2. Re:Impressive? Sure, but it's a rip-off... by Larry+Lightbulb · · Score: 2, Informative

    Two different styles of programme - one is real science, the other is being surprised that things in movies don't work without special effects.

  3. Re:Oh no he didn't! by theshowmecanuck · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually he didn't make it. He slipped and had to hang on the safety rope near the top. However I'll him the credit for reapplying the vacuum cleaner suction things to the wall and continuing from the point where they failed.

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  4. Re:Oh no he didn't! by Sethumme · · Score: 3, Informative

    13-year-olds inventing things just for sheer awesomeness is always great, but this 13-year-old didn't invent anything. He just used the Bang Goes the Theory design.