Forget you guys with your lifted trucks. You aren’t ballin’ hard enough if you aren’t riding on some Honeycomb wheels.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Resilient Technologies have come up with a wheel that doesn’t need any type of Air pressure. Instead of rolling on air, you’re just rolling on a honeycomb structure. Oh, and did I forget to mention this puppy is Bullet-proof and Bomb-proof? Tired of being late to work trying to drive through the battleground that is rush hour traffic? Thwart the old ladies tossing grenades out of their windows and get some of these 37″ “tires”.
Created for the Military, these prototype tires are guaranteed to save many lives. Conventional tires are useless when they lose air pressure or get blown out in combat. What’s the use of Armor if your tires are blown out? A few advantages to this new honeycomb design is that it costs about the same as a conventional tire and rides the same.
Hopefully soon they will be moving to consumer vehicles. Same price, same ride, ballin’ pattern, bomb-proof and bullet-proof? Sign me up. I’ll throw some on the 240. Me Want Honeycomb!
Be safe out there, Happy Turkey Day!
For the four of you on the planet that haven’t seen the Dark Knight yet, allow me to introduce you to the new Batmobile. Thankfully, you won’t find Adam West in skin-tight spandex behind the wheel, nor will you see current Batman Christian Bale searching for a throat losange in the cockpit (seriously, what’s with his voice?). This baby is a replica and it belongs to Bob Dullam, a man that I will worship for the rest of my life as the greatest do-it-yourself artist on the planet. Dullam, who’s a custom fabricator, has been working on the build in his garage using nothing but pictures and repeat viewings of Batman Begins on DVD for reference.
With the notable exception of the engine, rear axle and tires, every single part has been handcrafted. And what makes the build really unique is that he didn’t modify an existing car to look like the batmobile, he created it completely from scratch. If you remember, all of the previous Batmobiles were mainly just modified Ford’s and Corvette’s with specialized body kits. This is the real deal.