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For a while now, Mac Pro towers have had the nickname “cheese grater” because of their superficial resemblance to this kitchen appliance. Apple has only been a company since the …read more Continue reading IBM Cheese Cutter Restoration
Removing and reinstalling a bike’s rear wheel can be quite a laborious, frustrating process, as you have to wrangle the chain, derailleur and (if applicable) the disc brake. The new Fasten system, however, allows the wheel to quickly drop straight down… Continue reading Fasten system could make bicycle wheel removal a breeze
Few things punish bicycle wheels harder than world championship-level downhill mountain bike racing, so France’s Nawa Technologies has signed up with a top-level downhill team to prove the strength of its nanotube-reinforced carbon fiber.Continue Readi… Continue reading “Nano-velcro” enhanced carbon rims withstand a pounding in MTB racing
Wheels are all well and good for getting around, but they only tend to rotate about a single axis. Omni-wheels exist, but they’re still a little too pedestrian for [James …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Omni-Balls For Robot Locomotion
Hamsters are great pets, especially for those with limited space or other resources. They are fun playful animals that are fairly easy to keep, and are entertaining to boot. [Kim]’s …read more Continue reading Hamster Goes on Virtual Journey
Hankook’s R&D department has been working with biorobotics experts from Seoul National University and Harvard engineers on a weird transforming origami wheel project. These folding oddities can drastically alter their diameter and carry heavy loads.Con… Continue reading Hankook’s crazy transforming wheels inspired by origami waterbombs
When we talk about wheels, the vast majority of the time we’re talking about ho-hum cylindrical rollers as seen on all manner of human conveyances. However, there are all manner …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Wobbly Wheels Put Through Their Paces
Multirotor aircraft enjoy many intrinsic advantages, but as machines that fight gravity with brute force, energy efficiency is not considered among them. In the interest of stretching range, several air-ground hybrid designs have been explored. Flying cars, basically, to run on the ground when it isn’t strictly necessary to be …read more
Continue reading One Wheel Is All We Need To Roll Into Better Multirotor Efficiency
In the 60s a musical recording technique called the “wall of sound” came to prominence which allowed artists to create complex layers of music resulting in a novel, rich orchestral feeling. While this technique resulted in some landmark albums (Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys for example) it took …read more
We love a good concept tire here at New Atlas. Incremental improvements aside, the wheel-to-road interface has been more or less stagnant since Goodyear rolled out the first commercial tubeless tire some 66 years ago. Now, the same company has proposed… Continue reading Goodyear’s “rechargeable” concept tire extrudes extra tread as needed