From Popsci.com:
Meet your friendly neighborhood Spider-Kid! It’s the stuff of childhood dreams, right? A boy in Cambridge, England, can climb the walls just like his favorite superhero.
OK, Vacuum-Boy’s powers are slightly less subtle than Peter Parker’s. But you have to love 13-year-old Hibiki Kono’s creativity. He spent five months designing and building his Spider-Man gear from a pair of cheap 1,400-watt vacuums bought at Tesco (like a British Wal-Mart) and some suction pads.
The British press quotes Hibiki saying he used to dress up as Spider-Man when he was younger and he loves all the movies: “It’s great to be able to climb walls like him.”
Vacuum-backpack whirring, Hibiki picks his way along a brick wall, blue crash pad below. He says he would go higher but his instructors won’t let him. As for his mother, she thinks it’s brilliant, he says. “But she won’t let me use it in my bedroom as she’s worried I may pull down the ceiling,” the Sun quotes him saying.
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I love the picture that comes with it. The kids on the left… priceless.
The girl’s thinking “Someday I will make him mine! All mine!”
The middle kid’s thinking “Wow -that’s my best friend! He’s the greatest!”
The kid on the right end’s plotting the new Spidey’s eventual doom, Lex Luthor style.
Wow, good for him! I wonder if he completely made that himself, it looks really well done. I can’t imaging why his parents would buy him that equipment if they were unsure he’d do it….
Now what he really needs to finish it off is some sort of release valve going to a button on one of the pads, so he can cut the suction and he doesn’t need to pull it off the wall every time he wants to move, but I can’t see him getting the supplies to do that at Tesco hahaha.