Humans Gifted With Wings, Thanks to HTC and Wiimote Hack. By Elizabeth Fish. Dec 29, 2011 11:30 am PST. On a regular basis, thousands of people are able to fly all over the world.

How Biomimicry is Inspiring Human Innovation Creative minds are increasingly turning to nature—banyan tree leaves, butterfly wings, a bird’s beak— for fresh design solutions ...

It might involve some pretty big wings; in order to takeoff using a standard wingsuit with a wing area of 1.4 square meters, a human would need to run at a speed of 11 meters per second.