motherboard.tv — Nate 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 student design competition for product designs that would help soldiers survive in the battlefield. His group's idea was to create a Batman-like device called The Ascender.
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johnnienamibiaMar 31, 2010
That's awesome! Now get it so small it will fit in a utility belt and we'll be talk Bruce Wayne.
korberosMar 31, 2010
It's actually just 10%.
amazingsteveMar 31, 2010
Take THAT Mythbusters.
gaymathmanMar 31, 2010
He won one of the Lemelson -(MIT / MIT-/ Caltech / Rensselaer /U Illinois) student prizes (30k) and massive exposure.
neotechniMar 31, 2010
Yeah, they're going to have to redo that episode now
wastelanderMar 31, 2010
Nah, Morgan Freeman always plays Morgan Freeman.
jasonh1234Apr 1, 2010
Meh. He's a good storyteller though. Seems like the kind of guy that could hold your attention in a noisy bar while drunk.
scraperbikezApr 1, 2010
You mean Christopher Walken?
peanutcheesebarApr 19, 2010
Why is the author calling him Bruce Wayne? It's not like he's the goddamn Batman.