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:

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Looks like it’s time to showcase another amazingly cool DIY project: a printer made from Legos, electronic sensors, USB wiring, and a felt-tip pen. Created by a gadget-loving Youtuber (username: horseattack), this incredible device is a treat to watch [click more for video].

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The annual Austrian Hexapod Championships may just be the closest thing to a Miss America pageant for six-legged robots. Not only do these crustacean robots race, but they also compete in a choreographed dance portion of the competition.

Highlight reel from the 2010 Hexapod Dance-Off after the jump.

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Looks like OK Go has jumped on the engineering bandwagon – their latest music video, “This Too Shall Pass” features the Rube Goldberg machine to end all Rube Goldberg machines.

In a recent LA Times blog post, lead singer of OK Go Damian Kulash said of the giant mechanism: “Its only purpose is to be awesome…When I was a kid, all I did was play with Legos and Transformers.”

We think it succeeds pretty well.

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Here’s one everyday (we hope) item that you probably didn’t think engineers were paying attention to: pants.

Boris Smus, a software engineer from Carnegie-Mellon, has fitted touch-sensitive resistors into his clothing to create the Ubiquitous Drums, a pair of pants that doubles as a drum kit. [video after jump]

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Ever wondered what sound waves look like? Now you can see them physically manifest in this awesome physics experiment:

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Watch as the Mythbusters explain why inhaling different gases can temporarily change the pitch of your voice:

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