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Glue beats gecko's sticking power A carbon nanotube-based material has smashed records for sticking power to a vertical surface, and it can be easily peeled away too.   |
Chemistry World
February 18, 2008
Michael Gross |
Nanofiber Tape is Sticky Stuff The gecko's ability to walk up vertical walls could soon be copied by humans, thanks to new adhesive materials based on the structures found in its feet. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 75
David Bradley |
Stuck On You The race to find a material as "sticky" as a gecko's foot could soon be over as stronger and more practical materials are reported by a team based at four US institutions. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2009
Harry Sawyers |
What's the Best Duct Tape? Abusive Lab Test A comparison of duct tape to three multipurpose tapes. A look at the tensile strength, tenacity of the adhesive and how it works after a week underwater for each tape. |
This Old House
Andrew Wormer |
No-Guess Marksmanship To use a tape measure, you almost always need a pencil. Levelution's Next 25-foot tape measure does away with that tedious and less-than-accurate process by letting the tape measure itself make the mark. |
PC Magazine
June 21, 2006 |
Data Cram IBM researchers set new world record by storing 6.67 billion bits of data per square inch of magnetic tape. |
InternetNews
May 16, 2006
Clint Boulton |
IBM Shatters Tape Density Mark Researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., packed data onto a test tape at a density of 6.67 billion bits, or more than 6 terabytes, per square inch. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2008
Prachi Patel-Predd |
Wall-Climbing Robot Spies Gecko-inspired robots rely on directional adhesive feet; a new wall-climbing robot uses electrostatic adhesion. |
PC Magazine
May 3, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Eat Your Heart Out, Spider-Man Why should we care how geckos climb walls? Because they can show us how to design wall-climbing robots, clearly. |
Chemistry World
June 9, 2011
Mike Brown |
Chemical 'Scotch Tape' separates carbon nanotubes The separation mechanism is based on the interaction difference between chemicals and single-walled carbon nanotubes of different electrical properties. |
This Old House
Larry LeMasters |
Perfect Paint Show how your choice will really look on the wall. |
InternetNews
October 7, 2005
David Needle |
Imation Tape Drive Emulator on Tap Standard cartridge form factor device speeds up tape back-up and restore times. |
InternetNews
September 21, 2006
Clint Boulton |
IBM Revs Tape Storage Into Overdrive IBM upgrades its enterprise-class tape system with long-distance disaster recovery and grid tools. |
InternetNews
May 7, 2010 |
Oracle Says It's Sticking With Tape Storage The latest Sun customers to need reassuring from Oracle are the StorageTek data tape customers, who are told of Oracle's long-term commitment to the technology. |
InternetNews
December 5, 2005
Paul Shread |
Quantum Secures Tapes Quantum has unveiled DLTSage Tape Security, a free tape security offering that the company says is the first step in a broad tape security initiative. |
