Human-sized Wacky WallWalker scales Japanese skyscraper

Sho sez, "A Japanese TV show designs a 5'6" Wacky WallWalker, weighing about 154 lbs, to climb down a 110-meter skyscraper. The first try is not exactly successful, but a second attempt comes up with better results. Both videos are highly entertaining for the 8-year-old in all of us."

This is no ordinary reality show -- they've got enough cameras deployed to catch the merry mayhem from every conceivable angle. I love the school-group of little kids on one storey who are captured gasping and giggling as the WallWalker plummets past them. Link (Thanks, Sho!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

MORE: Art and Design • Funny • Happy Mutants

More at Boing Boing

Eurovision 2013: An American in London

The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek

anthropomorphictoast

I <3 Japan.

Being a child of the 80′s, this delights me to no end. :)
Moon

It wasnâ€™t able to make it all the way down the tower, but the human-sized sticky man will still no doubt go down in history as one of mankindâ€™s greatest achievements.

Hahahahaha! MANKIND’S GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT!
joi

This is the kind of stuff that makes me proud to be Japanese. ;-)
linguafranca

Go Japan!
Idea: Put the gooey stuff on your own hands and feet and go yourself. Anyone thought of that already?
Now, I bet someone will try that soon.
elchucko

That was entertaining! I’d love to see that up close. Well, not as the goo-man…
dannysland

Deviation! You don’t “scale” downwards.

OED: “To climb, get over (a wall or the like); to ascend (a mountain); to get to or reach the top of.”