Is Spider Man’s wall-climbing ability impossible outside comic books? One 13-year-old certainly didn’t think so. Hibiki Kono of Cambridge, England has created his own wall-scaling suction device for a school project using recycled vacuum cleaners. Check it out:
One of the greatest challenges and sources of opportunity for modern engineers is thinking up ways to repurpose the waste material that pervades our planet. Many organizations are already finding clever ways to tackle this issue. For example, every year the PBS show Design Squad holds a “Trash to Treasure” competition, which challenges students to design something useful produced from waste materials. Now meet Waste for Life, a non-profit coalition of students, designers, and engineers who are working in Argentina and Lesotho to upcycle waste into usable materials:
