You don't need to be born with a genetic mutation or be exposed to solar radiation in order to become a superhero.
All you need is the cash to buy some pretty exclusive technology.
Here are 10 devices that will have you climbing walls like Spiderman or painlessly taking a bullet like Batman.
The XOS 2 is your real-life Iron Man suit
This military exoskeleton is designed to make a soldier's workload a little lighter. It works with the wearer to make lifting heavy objects or carrying a heavy pack effortless.
It's expected to be deployed to battlefields within 5 years.
Climb walls like Spiderman
Engineers at Cornell University have created a "palm-sized device that uses the adhesive power of water to create a reversible adhesive bond capable of sticking to glass, wood and even brick." Funded by the military, they hope to adapt it to allow a user to climb up walls.
Yes, that's right -- Spiderman gloves.
Clothes that make you invisible
True invisibility isn't impossible at all.
Zang Xiang of UC Berkeley has used "metamaterials" -- artificially engineered structures that have properties not seen in nature, such as negative refractive index -- to affect light by sending it around the material. The effect is literally that of an invisibility cloak.
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