A student from Stanford University came up with gloves that scale walls allowing him to become like Spiderman.

Elliot Hawkes of Stanford's Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab said, "You see those movies as a kid and think, 'If I could do that, it would be great."

Hawke's four-man team at Stanford created gloves that scale walls which use the same mechanics that geckos use with their sticky feet to let humans scale glass walls. The paddles are the size of table tennis racquets and feature slots that hold the wearer's hands tight to the back of the devices. Every fiberglass tile holds about four and a half kilograms and the 24 tiles have about 100 microns of adhesive surface, based on a report by Tech Times.

The Stanford students reportedly already have patents on the gloves that scale walls and are currently discussing with toy companies to offer the items to the public. There are questions on how the gloves might work for rock climbing activities. Also NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are apparently interested in using a type of gecko gloves that will allow astronauts to gather space junk.

Mark Cutkowsky, a member of Hawkes team, said about the NASA collaboration, "The idea is to go up very gently, touch onto a solar panel or fuel tank and reel things in. It turns out that gecko-inspired adhesives are one of the very few technologies that will work in space, where you've got a vacuum and very low temperatures."

Sydney Morning Herald reported that Hawkes shared about his climbing experience. He said, "It turns out there's not much load going through your hand when you're climbing. Most of the load is going through your foot. He continued, "To climb with it feels fairly magical. You have your entire body weight hanging from this much adhesive. Each time you put it on, you kind of expect it to fail. And then it works."

Hawkes added, "With our adhesive, the goal is to get as much intimate contact as possible over the entire area to make that van der Waals force scale up to something significant."

He said that they plan to have all the interested individuals up on the wall, "That's the ultimate challenge with these gecko adhesives. Everyone wants to see Spider-Man."

A video on how the gloves that scale walls work was posted on YouTube.