Gadgets Blog » Professor to Try to Develop Spider-Man Suit

It looks like there is a professor in Italy who’s trying to make a real-life Spider-Man suit.

Nicola Pugno, a professor of structural mechanics at the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy has published his research in the Institute of Physics’ Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter about how he would develop a suit that would allow a human to scale buildings just like the superhero.

Pugno said that the suit would have gloves and boots that would have engineered molecules of carbon nanotubes that would allow people to cling to walls. The glove would even be able to sling an invisible cable. His inspiration he said came from geckos and not spiders, because of their ability to cling to any surface.

That’s great if it’ll help me crawl up buildings and swing from the top of skyscrapers, but is it going to protect me from that 200 foot free fall into the concrete just in case my web decides to snap.

And better yet. Is it gonna be available in black or red?

P.S. Spidey-Sense not included.

Source: Discovery Channel
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