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My Spidey Sense Is Tingling

Grad Student Creates His Own Working Spider-Man Suit

by Jill Pantozzi | 4:16 pm, February 22nd, 2013


Who says you have to get bitten by a radioactive spider to get the power of Spider-Man? One student has used technology to acquire a spidey-sense. 

Victor Mateevitsi is a a computer science grad student at University of Illinois at Chicago. He hopes his invention, which takes a lot of inspiration from Marvel’s Spider-Man, could have applications for cyclists and the visually impaired. What does his special suit do exactly? It warns the wearer when something is near them. He calls it SpiderSense.

According to Discovery.com:

The suit is composed of small, robotic arms encased in microphone-equipped modules attached to one’s body. The mics send out and receive ultrasonic reflections from objects within one’s environment. If the ultrasound detects a person or thing moving closer to the mic, the robotic arms respond by putting pressure on the corresponding body section from wherever the “threat” is coming.

“When someone is punching Spider-Man, he feels the sensation and can avoid it. Our suit is the same concept,” Mateevitsi told New Scientist.

Mateevitsi tested the suit on fellow students who were able to sense an approach 95% of the time while blindfolded.

(via Discovery)

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  • Anonymous

    Ok, that’s cool. I wonder how it would work in a noisy environment, though?

  • TKS

    That’s what I was wondering. What happens when you are in a crowd? I think it might be less of a “spider-sense” and more “legend of Zelda companion character.”

    “Did you know your health is low? You can refill hears by finding hearts.”

  • Patrick

    I think it’s more of a sonar type thing, not as much based on sound

  • ACF

    This is cool. I was hoping for web-shooters though, when I saw the title.

  • http://www.facebook.com/KozmikPariah Ryan Colson

    Sounds like it’s more of a Daredevil suit than a Spider-Man suit then :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/KozmikPariah Ryan Colson

    …So Daredevil suit then?

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