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Forget Spider-Man — Gecko Man may be breathing down your neck with gloves made of sticky hairs. Researchers in Britain said Monday they had developed a new type of adhesive based on the uniquely sticky feet of geckos. And yes, some day people may be able to use it to climb walls.

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"The mechanism used by spiders (and flies) for climbing walls is not scalable while the gecko mechanism is," Geim said in an interview conducted by e-mail.
"This offers a unique opportunity for scaling the gecko's invention up for the use with much heavier objects, even to the extent that humans can use it (e.g., for rock-climbing?)," said Geim, who reports his finding in the June issue of the journal Nature Materials.

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