Airless, Tubeless, Trouble-less 🙂
Biomimicry is the science that imitates nature to create new products.
A Wisconsin based company, has created a tyre that can’t go flat. Instead of using an air-filled tube, the tyre design relies on a geometric pattern of six-sided cells that are arranged in a matrix, like a honeycomb.
This is an airless, tubeless tyre with uniform flexibility and can take on tremendous wear and tear and still perform well.
You guessed it – It is being funded by the US army, so that they can drive their vehicles in hostile conditions and not have flat tyres. It would be useful for their next desert war, you see !! 🙂
But, I am amazed at all the good, that this can do to our Indian farmers and public transport who need such heavy-duty tyres. Ofcourse our army too would benefit.
But what got the WoW was the revelation that the best design was found in nature, which was the honeycomb!
Hasan Mohammed Jinnah 
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