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These days, cars need more of everything. More side airbags, more windows and more pistons are a good start, but if we really want to enhance a car’s performance, we need to do as Covini does and add two wheels to our cars.

The Covini Six Wheeler (C6W) is a product which draws its engineering inspiration from the 1976 Tyrell P34, a car with an extra pair of tires in the front. This improves braking, grip and better absorbs frontal impact all while reducing the risk of a flat or the event of hydroplaning. It also makes roadkill even less identifiable.

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If you’ve been looking for a solid case for your iPhone 3G, you need not look any further. This $15 dollar Vroom tire tread case is made from 100% rubber and as we all know, rubber can bounce. This’ll not only protect your phone by cushioning the blow of impact, but it’ll also prevent your phone from slipping out of your hand. When it comes to protecting your gadgets, nothing compares to the power of Firestone Tir-wait, scratch that.

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With all the rubber tires occupying precious space in landfills, something needs to be done about tire fires releasing dangerous toxins into the atmosphere. Enter Carl Menary’s design “Re-tyre”, the tire to retire in that says we can clean up a waste problem and at the same time, get some sweet furniture.

But, wait what’s this? This chair is just one tire! I’ve sat in tire chairs comprised of eight tires or more, now that’s recycling. At the same time, this paves a new wave for tire chairs everywhere. Redneck truckers can now mass produce these for their endless offspring. Even a hillbilly wedding could have every attendee sitting in a tire. You can’t get a better productivity ratio than one tire one chair.

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Ever seen a radical car do a crazy burn out in the movies? It seems Steven Laurie was big on watching that kind of stuff. So big that he decided to make his very own Burnout Machine. It looks like a moving dolly mixed with a lawnmower to be quite honest.

The machine works by powering it up and revving the engine. You hold on to one end to keep the thing from flying away and next thing you know, smoke is pouring out everywhere and you’ve gone to the hospital for carbon monoxide treatment.

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Nowadays, tire swings are built horizontally instead of vertically. A rope tied around a tire just isn’t as fun as it used to be for the kids. This brings a whole new area of challenges in crafting a tire swing. User adlabens from Instructables has come up with a great tutorial for making your very own horizontal tire swing. This 18-step procedure is well documented and highly thorough. Everyone in the neighborhood will take notice to your vastly more affordable tire swing after comparing it to their flimsy, pre-purchased overpriced version.

Be sure to check it out if your kids have been bugging you in the past for some sort of enjoyment outside of the house.
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If you don’t know how to use a traditional jack, you can be putting yourself in a pretty shitty situation when you get a flat tire. Using the jack wrong could leave you with a scratched paint job and even a damaged axle. The Exhaust Air Jack takes away from the metal-on-metal damage factor, yet adds in a whole new risk factor to the mix.

Sure, the Exhaust Air Jack does a seemingly decent job of lifting your car, but does it not matter that it’s lifting your car, with the vehicle still running? Catching all of the flammable, toxic gases inside of a condensed balloon, with the car still running, doesn’t sound much safer or efficient to us then a typical jack. It might just save you some time though, as filling the Air Jack only takes about 30 seconds. Get yours for around $120. — Andrew Dobrow

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