[molewhacka]

Reaffirming the principle that when you wish to create, look to the Creator.

[Retired Chemist]

The last thing I read about this is that they were trying to find a way to keep them clean.

[bgill]

Geckos are no match for my cats.

[rlmorel]

I like the idea.

When I was a kid I lived in the Philippines, and they had abundant populations of lizards, including geckos that had disposable tails, smallish garishly colored bodies, and huge heads with tiny needle-like teeth. I recall them being up to a foot long with the tail.

I would hear them at night...”EEEEH OHHH...(long pause)...EEEEEH OHHHHH!”

Whenever I saw one of these, I would attempt to capture it. They were terrifically interesting, but quite dangerous looking with that big head and mouth.

I would attempt to knock them from the overhead then grab them by the neck right behind the head. A broom worked to knock them to the ground, but I recall they easily would avoid a stick.

While holding them by the neck (with that big mouth wide open threateningly) I would put other bugs into its mouth to see what would happen when it clamped down. I would place its body on a window or a jar to see if it could latch on and support lifting the jar from the ground with those cool feet (it could)

One day at school, during shop class, I saw one on the overhead just outside Mr. Stauffer’s class. I grabbed a broom and swiped at it while I stood directly underneath it...it fell...and landed on my face.

In terror and panic, I shook my head violently, throwing my black plastic BCD glasses (Birth Control Device) about five yards away.

When they landed, the gecko was firmly attached to the glasses!

[DUMBGRUNT]

An original master gecko adhesive mold with millions of microscopic structures is made in a clean room using a photolithography process. Then, wax copies of the master mold can be made at low cost.

Scale them up, like snowshoes for the hands and feet, manufacture in China.
Could be a big seller, south of the border, down Mexico way

[DouglasKC]

Yep, and all of this miraculous stuff just “evolved”....in every cell in every creature. All sprang from nothing. The scientific theory of life springing from non-live and “evolving” into different species is a holdover from a time when scientists thought that maggots spontaneously grew from rotten meat. Quaint, but wrong. When Darwin constructed his theory there weren’t the tools to see just how incredibly complex just a single cell is and many are still in denial about these micro machines.