[hawkinspeter]

Just seen a “spring-powered wheel” on Hacker News and it damn near broke my bullshit detector.

https://www.superwheelsystem.com/

Apparently, it’s powered by weight (using a patented weight(mass) to energy conversion) though I can’t find the patent.

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[hawkinspeter]

dave atkinson wrote:

“hingedly” is surely not an actual word

I think you’ll find that it’s a perfectly cromulent word. Maybe you need to embiggen your vocabulary?

[Captain Badger]

dave atkinson wrote:

so as long as the rider continues to move closer to the ground, you move forward?

All tehy need to do is attach a warp drive system to t and it’ll work perfectly…

[Captain Badger]

dave atkinson wrote:

“hingedly” is surely not an actual word

Must be, they used it twice, and these are very intelligent people. Makes perfect sense to me anyway…..

[dave atkinson]

so as long as the rider

so as long as the rider continues to move closer to the ground, you move forward?

[dave atkinson]

“hingedly” is surely not an

“hingedly” is surely not an actual word

[hawkinspeter]

The Indiegogo campaign is no

The Indiegogo campaign is no longer open **cough** fraud **cough**, and they appear to be out-of-stock for pre-orders.

This appears to be the actual patent details: https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2019081664

[Captain Badger]

A snip at a fiver under €400.

A snip at a fiver under €400 too….

Have they actually sold any??

[hawkinspeter]

Steve K wrote:

Steve K wrote:

Looks legit to me.

Would you be interested in helping crowd-fund my new design for cars?

[don simon fbpe]

What could possibly go wrong?

What could possibly go wrong?

[Tom_77]

Simpsons already did it.
 

Simpsons already did it.

 

[Steve K]

Looks legit to me.
Looks legit to me.

[hawkinspeter]

Think I’ve found the patent:

Think I’ve found the patent application: https://patents.google.com/patent/GB201703765D0/en

Here’s a handy force diagram explaining clearly how it works

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