Too bad there are no pics or video to go with the story but I would like to have one.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050824/...NlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Too bad there are no pics or video to go with the story but I would like to have one.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050824/...NlYwMlJVRPUCUl
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- A device that allows people to scale tall buildings in if not a single, then at least two bounds, has been developed for the U.S. military.
The PowerQuick personal lifting device can raise or lower a load of up to 145 kg (320 lb) at the rate of one meter (yard) per second, enabling special forces, rescue services or even construction workers to quickly ascend or escape buildings.
New Scientist magazine said on Wednesday the operator would shoot a rope attached to a grappling hook to the top of the building and then attach the rope to a harness-like device which hauls them up.
It said one battery charge would be sufficient to climb 250 metres -- the equivalent of five times the height of the Statue of Liberty.
Quoin International, the Nevada-based company that developed the device for the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said on its Web site the solid fuel military version was designed for hostage rescue and urban warfare.
However, the battery-powered civilian version had been designed with commercial applications such as building repair, logging or window washing in mind.
Kinda cool, but it's just basically a grappling hook with a motor, I thought it would be something a lil bit more futurisitc.
That would take some serious balls though, getting pulled up that fast, that high on some little thing like that, even though I'm sure you'd be strapped in.
its like being batman...
Originally posted by three.eighteen.
its like being batman...
That's exactly what I though. Eventually it'll become more compact in more of a "gun" form. Sweet Jesus that'd be cool.
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