Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The Inventor of the Ascender May Be A Real Life Bruce Wayne

http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/3/30/the-inventor-of-the-ascender-may-be-a-real-life-bruce-wayne
The Inventor of the Ascender May Be A Real Life Bruce Wayne


Posted by NOVAscienceNOW_Motherboard on Tuesday, Mar 30, 2010

Send to a friend Save this post NextPrev12Nate Ball, mechanical engineer, MIT grad, and co-founder of Atlas Devices, just might be the masked crusader. As a student at MIT, Nate entered a design competition for products that would help soldiers survive in the battlefield. His team’s idea was to create a Batman-like device called the Ascender that would enable soldiers to scale ropes at high speeds simply by pushing a trigger.

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