Twitter Trends I know it's not just me that's thought how
awesome it would be to scale the walls Spiderman style, which is
why I thought this Gecko Tape would be appreciated by others
than myself.  Scientists at UC Berkeley and Lewis and Clark
College created a new material capable of keeping things stuck
on walls in an invention which I imagine could be likened to an
advanced form of Velcro. A 2cm square can hold a pound of
weight, so the possibilities are really quite spectacular.
Unlike other adhesives like tape which dull with use, the Gecko
Tape works better each time.  "A new material relies on millions
of tiny plastic fibers that can grip solids as the fabric slides
across them, then quickly release those objects when pulled away
vertically," Gizmodo explains.  They haven't found a way for you
to attach it to yourself (yet) but the tape has been proven to
work well to keep objects like art on walls or bandaging wounded
limbs.  "The gecko has a very sophisticated hierarchical
structure of compliant toes