{"id":628,"date":"2015-04-25T11:44:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T09:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/?p=628"},"modified":"2015-11-13T20:13:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T19:13:23","slug":"a-clever-shock-absorbing-bike-wheel-now-for-wheelchairs-wired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"A Clever Shock-Absorbing Bike Wheel, Now for Wheelchairs | WIRED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/04\/clever-shock-absorbing-bike-wheel-now-wheelchairs\/'><img src='http:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3a1ed5a5-29ba-4c47-ba0f-4b974ef80831.jpg' class='alignleft' style='width: 100%'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ENTREPRENEURS LOVE TO claim they&rsquo;re &ldquo;reinventing the wheel.&rdquo; So what do you say when you&rsquo;ve actually reinvented the wheel? &ldquo;I love spokes, I&rsquo;ve just come up with something different,&rdquo; explains Sam Pearce, a British designer who, if you haven&rsquo;t guessed already, created a spoke-less, shock-absorbing wheel that&rsquo;s being used on wheelchairs and bicycles. Loopwheels, as its called, was recently shortlisted for the London Design Museum&rsquo;s Design of the Year award. When we first covered the product in 2013, cycling enthusiasts gave it a ringing endorsement, saying they were &ldquo;immediately impressed at the ride quality.&rdquo; Since then, Loopwheels has expanded from bikes to wheelchairs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/04\/clever-shock-absorbing-bike-wheel-now-wheelchairs\/'>www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/04\/clever-shock-absorbing-bike-wheel-now-wheelchairs\/'><img src='http:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3a1ed5a5-29ba-4c47-ba0f-4b974ef80831.jpg' class='alignleft' style='width: 100%'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ENTREPRENEURS LOVE TO claim they&rsquo;re &ldquo;reinventing the wheel.&rdquo; So what do you say when you&rsquo;ve actually reinvented the wheel? &ldquo;I love spokes, I&rsquo;ve just come up with something different,&rdquo; explains Sam Pearce, a British designer who, if you haven&rsquo;t guessed already, created a spoke-less, shock-absorbing wheel that&rsquo;s being used on wheelchairs and bicycles. Loopwheels, as its called, was recently shortlisted for the London Design Museum&rsquo;s Design of the Year award. When we first covered the product in 2013, cycling enthusiasts gave it a ringing endorsement, saying they were &ldquo;immediately impressed at the ride quality.&rdquo; Since then, Loopwheels has expanded from bikes to wheelchairs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/04\/clever-shock-absorbing-bike-wheel-now-wheelchairs\/'>www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}