The adventures of Mark Zuckerberg, the one and only Facebook king, philanthropist and unlikely gazillionaire – is now coming to the world of comics. And what’s more, it actually looks like something worth reading…in the toilet.
Shrinking an entire beloved comic book universe down to an iPhone game is a dangerous prospect, but that’s just what Spider-Man: Total Mayhem does, allowing you to swing from buildings, battle baddies, and hone your spidey senses on your iPhone.
We’ve all got at least one vacuum cleaner lying around the house (gathering dust, in some cases), but hopefully no-one will be inspired by BBC presenter Jem Stansfield who scales buildings using sucking force from the machines.
Not only does this Spider-Man look absolutely gross. We think that it might even be officially licensed.
Don’t let that picture of a cute little kid up there fool you – Kideos can be used for adults too. There’s nothing in the terms and conditions that says you have to upload a child’s photo to the Kideo website to get a 26-minute Spider-Man cartoon featuring their face and name as the web-slinging hero. For 40 bucks, you can become Spider-Man – that sounds like a bargain to me.
Although, you may want to stick with a child’s pic for the Dora the Explorer, Barney and Gregory Gopher videos – using your own mugshot there would just be creepy and wrong.
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Poor Spidey. His disembodied head suction-cupped to your windshield, forced to hold your mobile devices with his face. That’s no way for a superhero to go out. On the plus side though, this little plastic gadget will give you a unique place to store your mobile phone while keeping it at eye level in case you receive a call. Plus, it will only set you back US$17.
Though news of the Waalbot actually surfaced last fall, EngineeringTV has a good footage of the gecko-like robot in action. The Waalbot has two legs with three micro-suction adhesive pods each, letting one pod stay attached to the wall while the other two rotate forward. It is also an autonomous bot with an RF transmitter on it’s back, allowing for wireless control. This is cool and all, but is it too much to ask for some giant-sized pods for my own usage? Check out the video below. [Carnegie-Mellon via EngineeringTV]
