The scissor jack is what most people are familiar with ... Hi-lift jacks use a fairly simple ratchet mechanism to move the support up a post, rather than pivoting a mechanism off the floor. As a ...

Here’s the thing about cars. The vast majority of them have four wheels. This is the correct number of wheels. If you take a wheel off, the car generally scrapes on the ground and/or crashes, and ...

We've hiked, camped, surfed, and everything in between to find the winners of the 2025 Men's Health Outdoor Awards.

Any mechanic or DIYer will tell you you should never work on a car without the proper equipment. A hard task can quickly turn ...

This paper presents a novel deployable robotic gripper with arc-shaped scissor mechanism, which is made up of four fingers and a base mechanism, and each finger consists of several arc-shaped scissor ...

Earthworms are the soft, tube-shaped, segmented worms who move with waves of muscular contractions. This paper presents our recently developed compliant modular earthworm-like robot with the novel ...