{"id":120,"date":"2003-06-11T07:08:44","date_gmt":"2003-06-11T13:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=120"},"modified":"2003-06-11T07:08:44","modified_gmt":"2003-06-11T13:08:44","slug":"geckotech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2003\/06\/11\/geckotech\/","title":{"rendered":"GeckoTech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, that&#8217;s not a bad name for a new company&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, there&#8217;s a product better than duct tape now&#8230;.  Gecko Tape!  Apparently, some scientists with a lot of curiosity and an eye on the tape market have figured out how geckos manage to climb walls.  Now, they&#8217;ve also managed to make a tape based on this technology.  The article is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/news\/news.jsp?id=ns99993785\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nActually, the next application they have for this (sticky gloves, tires, etc.) are what I find interesting.  Imagine a gecko suit that lets spys walk up buildings.  Or cling to ceilings.  Or, better yet, imagine robotic listening devices that can climb walls.  Now <b><i>that<\/i><\/b> is what I call a bug!<br \/>\nReally, the possibilities are almost endless on this.  There are so many applications for things that are sticky this way.  Could it replace Velcro&trade;?  Could it be used for emergency seals on an innertube?  So many things&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I mentioned this for the <i>first<\/i> time on my other blog <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ryumaou.com\/hoffman\/netgeek\">Diary of a Network Geek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, that&#8217;s not a bad name for a new company&#8230; Regardless, there&#8217;s a product better than duct tape now&#8230;. Gecko Tape! Apparently, some scientists with a lot of curiosity and an eye on the tape market have figured out how geckos manage to climb walls. Now, they&#8217;ve also managed to make a tape based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14],"tags":[230,231],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invented-worlds","category-news-and-current-events","tag-imagine-robotic-listening-devices","tag-tape-based-on-this-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}