Thursday 2 April 2009

Daniel Kish

Daniel Kish is the real life Daredevil. Losing his sight when he was just an infant, as a child Daniel taught himself to use echolocation making clicks with his tongue and listening for the echo bouncing off objects around him.

Kish is the co-founder of World Access for the Blind and has helped many children and families the world over to overcome blindness and take up activities such as mountaineering, mountain biking, skiing and other mainstream sports.

World Access for the Blind
Youtube: Daniel Kish explaining Echolocation

Wednesday 25 March 2009

Liew Thow Lin aka 'Mr Magnet'


Liew Thow Lin is a Malaysian who can make metal objects stick to his body. His power has also been inherited by his three sons and grandchildren.

Incredibly he has used this ability to tow a car.

Malaysia's University of Technology says Lin does not have any magnetic field but it's actually down to a super-suction effect of his skin. Perhaps he should rebrand to Mr Velcro? Not quite the same ring, plus it's only metals apparently.

Wikipedia Profile
Good Reverend article

Though technically not a wall-crawler, since Lin's skin is considered to have a 'suction' effect allowing him to 'stick' to metal (not unlike the tiny barbs in Spider-Man's skin allowing him to 'stick' to walls), I'm going to file under Wall-Crawling.