The Utah State University “Ascending Aggies” just won $100,000 from the Air Force to further develop this early prototype of a wall-climbing device that uses gigantic suction pads attached to a vacuum-like device on the climber’s back. It’s noisy, but it works well, so hopefully they can do something about the noise to make this more useful in stealth mode in the field. [via]
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I know full well that a story ran on UK news a couple of years ago where a school boy had built the same thing based of a household vacuum, this isn’t anything new and i’m interested as to why the Air Force is even interested in investing anything in this. As seen in the comments on that article, mythbusters build one a couple of years ago as well.
Here is the one the school boy built.