Comments on: Gecko Glue: Scientists Look to Nature for New Adhesives http://hippiemagazine.com/2010/05/18/gecko-glue-scientists-look-to-nature-for-new-adhesives/ Cool Eco News, Gadgets, and Innovation Fri, 11 May 2012 01:54:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sam@Steam Cleaner Reviews http://hippiemagazine.com/2010/05/18/gecko-glue-scientists-look-to-nature-for-new-adhesives/#comment-400 Sam@Steam Cleaner Reviews Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:20:53 +0000 http://hippiemagazine.com/?p=577#comment-400 They should also consider making gloves and shoes that can replicate the geckos feet in order for humans to maniplulate the same surfaces as geckos. That would be cool. We are so nieve nature already answers many questions and at the same time look back in history tons of other answers where also found and lost to pure time. Take the Annatto/Lipstick tree from the Amazon. Colombians have used extracts from the plant to treat snakebites. A study in 2000 confirmed this use in mice. They should also consider making gloves and shoes that can replicate the geckos feet in order for humans to maniplulate the same surfaces as geckos.

That would be cool. We are so nieve nature already answers many questions and at the same time look back in history tons of other answers where also found and lost to pure time.

Take the Annatto/Lipstick tree from the Amazon. Colombians have used extracts from the plant to treat snakebites. A study in 2000 confirmed this use in mice.

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