Hello Netzwelt: With the Omniwheel for 9 euros in the ICE – then off to the volcano!

The engineer sits there and thinks: A bicycle with an omniwheel would be great. Someone else says: I’m driving up the volcano in an electric car. Harrison Ford in front of the mirror sighs: Ah, indie. Sorry, are you robots pickling? Just deleted, now completely restored, welcomes you on behalf of the team to the Friday technical review, the 9-euro ICE Michael.

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1. Spin on the spot

2. Turn, on the spot!

3. Special: Rescue deleted files

4. Those were other top stories of the week

5. From Dyson and Co.: Look forward to new robots

6. The flat joke of the week

7. A lot of effort goes into this. We look forward to a recommendation!

“Allseitenrad” – welcome you new word in my vocabulary. Have you ever heard of this? I’m not. Maybe from the English-language term Omniwheel? From the Wikipedia entry on omnidirectional wheels? In any case, they all describe the same construction. But apparently no one before James Bruton had the idea of ​​building a bicycle with it.

Spin on the spot

It’s also a crazy idea. In order to be able to stay on what is probably the first bicycle with an Omniwheel, technology is required, such as that used in self-balancing robots. If you master the balance, you can do great tricks with an Omniwheel bike, for example you can turn on the spot. It’s cool!

Spinning in place seems to be a new thing in e-mobility (Nah, I’m exaggerating for the sake of reconciliation). With electrically powered pick-ups, the so-called tank move is becoming a must. The Rivian R1T can turn on the spot and this week Mercedes also showed that the electric G-Class EQG, which will be available from 2024, has the “G-Move” on it.

This is important because… imagine… you are… uh… driving your E-SUV in the desert and… uh… there is very little space between you and the sand dune at end of the horizon. Then quickly press the button and off you go the G-Move. Why desert? Because, strictly speaking, only the sandy soil allows the wheels to turn on the spot.

Turn, on the spot!

Speaking of dubious benefits for mankind: Volkswagen and a few other figures and companies wanted to prove that electric mobility really knows no bounds. Tesla is building charging points near the Mount Everest bascamp.

VW sends an adventurer with a team and an electric ID.4 GTX up a volcano in Bolivia. Exactly 5,816 meters of altitude were on the clock at the end. World record and entry in the Guinness Book of Records. “Our goal was to show that electric mobility is capable of top performance even at extreme altitudes,” said ID. driver Zietlow, who is supporting a Bolivian children’s village with the trip, afterwards.

“Nobody cares,” someone wrote to us on Facebook. Then another. Then a lot at once. So it seems to be of interest after all, as in the case of the burning Tesla, which simply switched itself off for reasons that are still unclear. For the VW ID.4, however, after setting the record, it was said: please turn around and drive back the same route. Because for the entire way over the volcano crater, completely different vehicles, such as “The Huntress” seen above, would have been necessary.

Special: Rescue deleted files

I was once taught never to use that phrase. Now the hotshot does it anyway, attention: Who doesn’t know it??? (Badum Tss). It was just there after all, the important file, the thesis, the love letter to Hallo Netzwelt, the photo of your first girlfriend, the recipe for the cat stew. And now? Turned off. “Zero Problemo”, Alf would say. (For the younger ones: hairy cat lover from the thing, space).

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Those were other top stories of the week

From Dyson and Co.: Look forward to new robots

Years ago, when the first vacuum cleaner robot wandered aimlessly through the editorial corridors, scared the dog, the facility was demolished and after a short time it was ready for hazardous waste, we could hardly imagine that things would soon mutate into real everyday relief.

And look where we are. Self-cleaning cleaning robots have been around for a long time. Thanks to LiDAR and lasers, navigation made huge leaps. It is not surprising that the manufacturers are moving to new shores. For example, now there is a robot that will clean and even stain your patio! (Excuse me, is your robot biting? No, no – just walk past him, he’s doing nothing).

And Dyson is also opening a new robot barrel. New models with arms should be used in industry and private households. One mysterious picture even shows a robot clearing out the dishwasher. I’m already dreaming of a robot that carries my other robots to the dishwasher.

The flat joke of the week

Friends of the network world, apart from the flat joke of the week, there is not much more to come here. The powder for this week is gone. We’ll read each other next Friday at the latest (I’m not there at all, but at Rock am Ring, I see right now. Who else?). But as you know, this newsletter always reaches you somehow. Take care and stay curious and tech-savvy, bye!

By the way: I just punched a sheet of paper. But that’s just a side note…

There are even more flat jokes at this point on Netzwelt.

A lot of effort goes into this. We look forward to a recommendation!

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