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February 23, 2013 06:38 am GMT
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Body Suit Gives You Real-Life Spidey Sense
When it comes to recreating Spider-Mans superpowers, those silly string-blasting, wrist-mounted web shooter toys are mere childs play, at least compared to what Victor Mateevitsi has up his sleeve.
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Mateevitsi, a computer science grad student at University of Illinois at Chicago, has built a suit called SpiderSense lets you feel the proximity to nearby objects or lunging villains. In fact, its so sensitive and tingly that users can navigate with their eyes closed.
The suit is composed of small, robotic arms encased in microphone-equipped modules attached to ones body. The mics send out and receive ultrasonic…
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