Craig sez: "Scientists have discovered how geckos (the lizard, not the layout engine behind Mozilla) can climb glass: apparently the hairs on their feet form electrodynamic bonds with the surface. Each tiny hair has 1,000 pads on its tip, a tip that is only 200 billionths of a metre wide — smaller than the wavelength of visible light. Could lead to real-life Spider-Men."
"We can apply the underlying [principle] and create a similar adhesive by breaking a surface into small bumps," he said, adding: "the artificial foot-hair tip model opens the door to manufacturing dry, self-cleaning adhesive that works under water and in a vacuum."
(Thanks, Craig!)
