Jul 2 201013-Year Old Makes Wall-Climbing Vacuum Suit

Seen here pretending to be more than two feet off the ground, 13-year old Hibiki Kono made himself a vacuum powered wall-climbing suit so he can escape the asylum and avenge his parents' deaths. Ooooor climb a brick wall while people take pictures.
Using a pair of 1,400-watt vacuums he purchased at UK retailer Tesco, Hibiki Kono hooked them up to a couple of large suction pads, and proceeded to ascend a vertical surface with the contraption strapped to his back and arms.
Well damn, future Mr. Dyson -- you've got inventor written all over you! Also, "I have sex with appliances". Let me guess: you had too much Sunny-D and passed out with your shoes on again.
Hit the jump for a video of Hibiki and his magic suit in action.
spider-man or vacuum-boy? [technabob]
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Reader Comments
1. (◕_◕)┌∩┐Closet Nerd - July 2, 2010 11:35 AM
He then dislocated his penis when he used the vacuum suit on it.... just sayin
2. wllhhh - July 2, 2010 11:36 AM
firstard!
3. Jaded Icon - July 2, 2010 11:37 AM
Well I hope he washed the vacuum before using it in public....
4. No - July 2, 2010 11:38 AM
This is retarded. Nothing special here. It would only have been exciting if he had climbing vertically, not left and right..
5. i'm here till 12pm, then after lunch too - July 2, 2010 11:44 AM
sounds cool. would SUCK if there's an outage. zing!
6. Mike - July 2, 2010 11:44 AM
@4 I think the news recording wanted him to be safe, yet still demonstrate the climbing. If they had him climb to the top of the building and the machine broke, the mats they had out wouldn't really help much...
7. Jennaiii - July 2, 2010 11:47 AM
OLD! (ish)
8. AtomicMug - July 2, 2010 11:56 AM
If you had a guy on the roof using an Oreck Excel vacuum to pick up and drop bowling balls on this kid, you'd have an AWESOME real-life video video game happening!
9. MeHa - July 2, 2010 12:02 PM
We'll he couldn't sneak up on you with all that f*ckung noise could he! And he's wearing a helmet, what a wuss. He should have climbed the wall while on fire and then dove into a giant vat of fakon (fake bacon, it tastes like dinosaur sex), that would have been sweet... the dino sex not the fire or wall climbing crap!
10. Aunt Jemima - July 2, 2010 12:02 PM
NNNNEEEEEERRRRRDDDDSSSS!
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12. Austin - July 2, 2010 12:17 PM
@6.. Are you kidding that mat was freaking huge, it was the same mat gymnasts use.. The kid would have been fine.. Problem is he's a pussy brit at some lame ass boarding school
13. ORLY ٩(-̮̮̃-̃)۶ - July 2, 2010 12:18 PM
The Sun. Isn't that one of those magazines that tell you about the two-headed alien baby born in Texas?
You can tell it's fake. The shadows are all wrong!
14. monster - July 2, 2010 12:21 PM
That's be awesome, until he climbs to high and pulls the plug out =D
15. compound9 - July 2, 2010 12:25 PM
This kid gives me hope for the future.
Now if everyone could get their lazy piles of S they call children to use their waning gray matter for something other than a bong resin deposit.
We might have a chance at surviving the future.
And we can stay lazy, we dont need to learn to swim, we can just climb buildings to escape the flood.
16. Shelbon - July 2, 2010 12:31 PM
@2 The first step to solving a prolbem within ones self is admitting that you have a problem. Well done! Now step two, this one is much trickier. You have to stop being retarded...ELLIPSES!
17. jojodrum3 - July 2, 2010 12:33 PM
@11 Stop doing that! Your spammy BS cannot possibly be working at all!
18. Shelbon - July 2, 2010 12:35 PM
@15 I agree, however ranting about what's wrong with people in a geekologie comment won;t change anything. Perhaps you should direct your energy towards such things that vex you.
19. Dishy - July 2, 2010 12:49 PM
Hibiki Kono is an incredibly cool name. Japanese?
Amazing job Hibiki.
20. Poopdeedoo - July 2, 2010 1:02 PM
With brick being as porous as it is, wouldn't it be one of the worst surfaces for achieving suction? Usually when people attempt vacuum-based wall climbing, it's either on glass or metal.
and @15: bongs filter out that resin so you get good clean smoke. But for those of us that only smoke pipes or joints, it deposits into our lungs. My grey matter... um... good (I think).
21. Calyster - July 2, 2010 1:49 PM
Mmmmm is it me or its not really quiet to use as a spy or to break in a house
22. Furd Terguson - July 2, 2010 1:52 PM
This kid has no friends and never touched a boob.
23. ciao - July 2, 2010 2:35 PM
If you're body is conditioned to similar effects of rock climbing, you'll be fine with using such gear that'll support a certain amount of body weight. I bet that thing is really noisy too.
Oh, it's encouraging to have a geek climb for a strip of bacon.
24. anon - July 2, 2010 2:52 PM
#22
He's in primary school and you think the virgin insult applies to him? It does applies to someone here.
#20 That makes it even more impressive.
25. super cooper - July 2, 2010 3:15 PM
#22
when you were his age you must have been sucking dicks, not bricks.
26. Kevser - July 2, 2010 4:43 PM
... I've seen this EXACT setup on some show before, I think it was "Bang goes the theory". Evil plagiarist
27. Marcus - July 2, 2010 5:07 PM
Don't you mean.
13 yr old watches dad make vacuum suit and is forced to be the wall climbing gimp in case dad was crap.
28. Dishy - July 2, 2010 5:09 PM
f'ing vacuums, how do they work?
29. marcie - July 2, 2010 6:09 PM
VVVVRRRRRRRR
Sounds like that Kono boy is outside Linda's room again.
I'll turn on the hose, honey.
30. Cubbz - July 2, 2010 8:49 PM
He just COPIED the ORIGINAL INVENTOR from England who demonstrated the same process on Feb 2, 2010. See: http://goo.gl/ooF8
Almost identical setup; vacuum layout, mounting, etc. Exact copy!
31. Nooble - July 2, 2010 9:47 PM
If a need ever arises for me to move parallel to the ground while 3 above it ... I'm all over this.
32. lolburgers - July 3, 2010 4:53 AM
Sumimasen Konosan, virgin for life!
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34. Wylizzle - July 3, 2010 11:30 PM
I lost the game:(
35. zanz - July 4, 2010 9:12 AM
there's a TV programme in the uk called 'bang goes the theory' and its some scientific thing that puts a fun spin on it all for the kids, they made this exact device, he ain't no inventor.
and no i'm not even jealous he could be bothered to make his own!
36. dparks - July 4, 2010 11:31 PM
Next stop - College Chix Dorm.
37. PenyWise - July 5, 2010 5:55 PM
Well this little sheldon, seam to be afraid of hight...
to bad for is spiderman coming out...
38. IanR - July 6, 2010 12:43 AM
He ripped this off of a UK tv show called 'Bang Goes The Theory'. Google it.
39. ข่าวไอที - July 6, 2010 9:25 AM
Good idea.
40. james - July 6, 2010 10:05 PM
that fucking midget is 13?
41. Qeex - July 7, 2010 10:51 AM
This kid didn't come up with this idea, Bang goes the Theory did.