<![CDATA[Gizmodo: utility belt]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: utility belt]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/utilitybelt http://gizmodo.com/tag/utilitybelt <![CDATA[Batman Utility Belt PC is Better Than a Face Full of Acid]]> Made for the Mod Shop's Comic Book Challenge, this Batman Utility Belt PC is, well, it is what it is. There are wires interconnecting the various parts—you can see the power supply's yellow tentacles snaking all throughout the setup—as well as green liquid cooling tubes making sure everything is cool. Cool in the way that this PC is not. We're sorry to hate on this after the creator spent so much effort in building it (especially since we love the Bat), but it's pretty impractical. And dangerous. A much better mod would be to make something Batman-inspired that wouldn't cause a house fire if one of the pieces toppled over. [Modshop]

]]> http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=382260&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[MIT Student Creates Real Life Batman Utility Belt]]>
Nathan Ball, an MIT graduate student, has created a battery-powered rope ascender, which is just a fancy name for Batman's utility belt. Ball and his team were challenged to create a 25-pound package capable of lifting 250 pounds 50 feet into the air in five seconds or less and after nearly two and a half years of research they finally did it. Ball and his team have since founded Bat Tools, LLC Atlas Devices, LLC to develop and market their officially named ATLAS Powered Rope Ascender. Batman jokes aside (I have well surpassed my quota), this is a great tool that could be used by the military, firefighters, window washers and more. Ball even won $30,000 for making it. Damn, it pays to be a smarty. –Travis Hudson

MIT Graduate STudents Wins $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Life-Saving Inventions [Businesswire]

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