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Inventor Scales Building Using Homemade Vacuum Gloves

By Jeremy Hsu Posted 07.27.2009 at 11:19 am 1 Comment

Nothing puts the DIY in climbing a building like a homemade pair of suction gloves. Inventor Jem Stansfield used his vacuum-powered device to clamber up the 120-foot aluminum wall of the White City building in London last week.

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Science

How Does That Bed of Nails Really Feel?

The Breakdown looks at the physics of a remarkable feat

By Adam Weiner Posted 05.28.2009 at 11:25 am 1 Comment

Is this a death-defying demonstration requiring a level of mastery only arrived at after years of intensive martial arts training, or is it a theatrical display based more on physics than on chi?

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Robots in the Ring

By Gregory Mone Posted 12.04.2007 at 1:52 pm 0 Comments

This past weekend, Tokyo's 12th Robo-One Grand Championship featured 25 two-legged robots trying to punch and jab their way to victory. One of them even sang a Christmas carol, only to get knocked over by a punch form a penguin-headed robot. The winning warrior, which earns the title of world's strongest two-legged fighting robot, has to throw and dodge punches and pull Rocky-Balboa-like feats of getting back on its legs after a devastating blow. No lasers or missiles allowed.—Gregory Mone

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