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cellphones

Spider-Man Sacrfices His Face to Hold Your Cellphone in a Car

Poor Spidey. His disembodied head suction-cupped to your windshield, forced to hold your mobile devices with his face. That's no way for a superhero to go out. On the plus side though, this little plastic gadget will give you a unique place to store your cellphone while keeping it at eye level in case you receive a call. Plus, it will only set you back $17. More »

3:00 PM on Wed Jun 25 2008
By Sean Fallon
1,682 views, 11 comments

marvel

Technics vs. Marvel Shirts Are Perhaps the Most Incredible Shirts Ever

Even though our (pretend) DJ days were over back in college, we still have a fond spot in our hearts for Technics and their beautiful equipment. The Technics 1200s are legendary DJ gadgets after all, so when we saw that the company actually issued a series of shirts featuring Marvel characters behind the decks, our various body parts exploded. It's hard to tell which one is the best, but we're going to go with either Iron Man or Captain America, though the Captain Britain vs. Captain America one has its charms as well. If they weren't $50 each, we'd stock up on one apiece. [DMCWorld via Audio Junkies]

5:30 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Jason Chen
8,773 views, 32 comments

Latest by bosskev: @Absent Blue: I only asked the question. Thanks for providing a response. (I love it when people voluntarily present themselves as examples of the problem.) more »

clinging sensation

Gecko Tape Could Mean Spider-Man Climbing Suits

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. The technology is based on the anatomy of a spider's gecko's foot, and may be used for things like hanging art on a wall, or wrapping a broken leg on a battlefield. Screw that stuff: I'd like to use it to build a Spider-Man climbing suit. More »

6:45 PM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By Wilson Rothman
5,596 views, 25 comments

hide-and-seek

S5 "Poor Man's LoJack" Tracking Chips Will Run for Four Years, Cost $2, Weigh Nothing

When Spidey tosses one of those sticky spiders to a getaway car, suspicious villain or hot chick he plans to stalk rescue later, we take for granted that the tracking chip inside is going to work right? Wireless-technology developer S5 plans to deploy a network of receivers in cities, so that its tiny $2 transmitter chip's unlicensed 915MHz signal can be triangulated wherever it comes from, indoors or out. You'll probably recognize this as a sort of inverted GPS—and also as an infrastructure nightmare—but there are reasons why this harebrained scheme just might work: More »

9:53 AM on Fri Dec 14 2007
By Wilson Rothman
6,191 views, 15 comments

Latest by n/a: So, we have a hi-tech beeper that gets "low power" by not beeping very often. Not all that useful. There are not a lot of tracking apps that work well without constant updates when you are actively looking. It more »

self-defense

"Spider-Man" Pepper Spray Bracelet Looks Like a Toy

Aside the fact that it's easy as balls to spot from a mile away thanks to its impressive heft and blue hue, Domonique Torrence's Spider-Man-inspired pepper spray bracelet comes close to being a useful idea. It's loaded with pepper spray cartridges, so you just slam the button in your palm to disperse the mild irritant into your attacker's face or other body part(s) without fishing around in your purse for a can. It's coming out later this year for 30 bucks, and if nothing else, it'll match your similarly bulky, ugly Crocs. [Local6 via CG]

6:40 PM on Thu Nov 1 2007
By Matt Buchanan
3,379 views, 10 comments

Latest by n/a: That's way too evident. Your attacker will see it coming from miles. Come on. NEeds to be more subtle more »

suits

Spiderman Suit To Allow Future Humans To Scale Walls, Wear Silly Suit

Other than firemen, the military and masked vigilantes, there probably isn't a huge market for a suit that allows you to scale up walls. However, Italian scientists have calculated how much stickiness a suit needs to mimic the ability of insects and spiders to climb up a wall without peeing their pants in fear of falling. Unless the suit injects a good bit of teen angst and pudginess (if this was the third suit in a trilogy), we'll have no part of it. [Telegraph]

4:40 PM on Wed Aug 29 2007
By Jason Chen
8,178 views, 41 comments

Latest by MainSub-main: it's only sticky on the inside now more »

gadgets

Spider-man Web Gun Shoots Web Fluid

If you've seen any TV ads at all in the past few weeks you're probably aware that Spider-man 3 is almost in theaters. And if you're at all like us, you've been running around your office making "thwip" noises and throwing string cheese in anticipation. No more! This Spider-man webslinging gun is the real deal. More »

12:30 PM on Mon Apr 16 2007
By Jason Chen
7,282 views, 12 comments

powerquick

PowerQuick: Here Comes The Spider-Man

Some call it industrial mountaineering or technical rope access, but Virgin.net calls it by the more technical term: "Spiderman Climbing." Granted, the PowerQuick does give you superhero-like abilities. It motors around 320 lbs. up the side of a building at speeds of one yard per second. It's battery-powered, and one charge can take you to the top of the Statue of Liberty—five times. Originally developed for DARPA, there are now two versions of the Powerquick. One is for commercial purposes (yawn!), and the other takes solid fuel and is intended for hostage rescue and urban warfare. Unintended third use: Circumventing the office elevator bank. More »

11:06 AM on Thu Aug 25 2005
By Noah R
395 views