About eighteen months ago, I told you about a tricycle with square wheels which needed a specially designed road. But now, Distributed Robotics, a company from Troy, N.Y., is developing robots with ...

Square bodies were phased out over the course of a few years at the end of the '80s and were replaced by the General's fourth-gen GMT 400 trucks. While the GMT 400 was a pretty big step up in quality, ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that, but there's no denying that there is beauty in strange contraptions that work even when they look like they shouldn't. This also applies to this ...

From a bike with shoes instead of wheels to an electric bike you can ride on water, a range of weird and wonderful bicycles have been developed over the years. But the latest invention is possible the ...

A square wheel may be the ultimate flat tire. There’s no way it can roll over a flat, smooth road without a sequence of jarring bumps. Equiangular spiral on a sawtooth road. Stan Wagon, a ...

You may have seen surveyors (or maths students) running around with measuring wheels, counting the clicks to measure distances. [AGBarber]’s digital measuring wheel works in much the same way, but ...

The iconic square wheel well design has adorned Chevrolet pickup trucks since the third-generation C/K series debuted in 1973. Although officially referred to by GM and Chevy as the Rounded Line ...