Two years ago, we heard how the Ohio-based Smart Tire Company was developing shape memory airless bicycle tires. Well, the resulting Metl tires can now be purchased via – you guessed it – a ...

"I lost my cousin Yara in a traffic accident. The driver, who had been drinking, took the wheel without any sense of responsibility, and that choice ended a person's life." Dor Heller Zarbel, head of ...

Researchers at Purdue University said today they have developed a smart tire that can sense failures in real time and detect other defects before a tire is mass produced. The concept behind the ...

STORY: These airless tires were invented by NASA for roving around on the Moon but now an LA-based company is bringing the technology back down to Earth, in the hopes of making punctures a thing of ...

LOS ANGELES — SMART Tire Co. Inc., a 2020 startup enterprise founded to advance airless tire technology developed for NASA, won the 2022 Accelerate the Future Challenge, sponsored by South Korean car ...

Tire health has a huge impact on a truck’s fuel efficiency and safety on the road. And yet, with all of the arguably sexier solutions out there offering driver assist features and self-driving ...

Tires have traditionally been exceedingly difficult to manage. That began to change over a decade ago, as the first tire sensors began giving fleets and drivers rudimentary data on tire pressure (and ...

NEW ORLEANS — Apollo Tires US Inc. has developed an integrated marketing campaign, "Smart Tires for Not Smart Roads," that debuted this week at the 2024 Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) Expo in ...

The FOBO Bike 2 Smart TPMS offers on-demand pressure and temperature readings and informs riders when it detects anomalies like air leaks. It comes in a small form factor that is easy to install ...

An Ohio-based company has seemingly perfected NASA's rover tire technology for a more terrestrial purpose—tires for road bicycles (and even e-scooters) —and now you can buy them on its fully-pledged ...

NASA has been creating cutting-edge tire technologies since 1967 for its explorations on the Moon, Mars, and other planets in our solar system. Now, a FedTech NASA Startup Program is making sure that ...

Earl Cole and Brian Yennie cofounded The Smart Tire Company, which has a partnership with NASA. They raised $1.3 million in 2021 and are now seeking an additional $3.7 million for a bicycle tire. Here ...