If reinventing the wheel is supposedly a lesson in futility, there’s one ingenious YouTuber that didn’t get the memo. Known as ‘The Q’ (real name Sergii Gordieiev) he’s made a name for himself, to the ...

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 ...

The invention of the wheel is considered one of the crowning achievements of early humanity. Squares don’t roll, after all. [The Q] decided to build a square-wheeled bike anyway, with a neat tracked ...

Modern engineering allows everyday folks to create in a way not truly possible in the past. Today, we get a glimpse of one such project, a square-wheeled bicycle that actually works… sort of. Here’s a ...

Discover five extraordinary personal transportation projects as we transform ordinary bikes and skates into engineering ...

“Oh, I don’t know …” “Just because.” “Why not?” Those are all perfectly acceptable reasons to do something, as far as we’re concerned. And that’s what we’re guessing was behind the decision that one ...

How do you make a square-wheeled bicycle roll smoothly? A group of mathematics students at Saint Norbert College discovered that changing the shape of the road would allow the square wheels to spin ...

Just because basic physics, your brain, and common sense say that it can't be done doesn't mean that it really can't be done. If The Q has a say in it, not only will it be done, but it will also work ...

When somebody attempts to reinvent the wheel it’s often newsworthy and that’s the case again today. This time, a three-sided approach is the subject and it actually works better than one might believe ...

Welcome to the week. Here are the most notable stories our writers and readers have come across in the past seven days… **This week’s roundup is sponsored by The eBike Store, Portland’s original ...

A 20-foot-tall Donkey Kong arcade machine? A bathroom scale that doesn't show your weight? There's a lot you may have missed in April. Reading time 1 minute April’s often a tough month to swallow, ...