Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-08
Hold the Wheel, a cycling physics sandbox
A free browser and Android tool that models the watts demanded by mass, drag area, drafting, speed, and road grade.
Why it surfacedIts central demonstration is unusually tangible: six identical riders on a 6% roller range from 225 W at the front to 501 W at sixth wheel, simply because they are spread across eleven metres of road. The site also explains its limits plainly, distinguishing the exact wheel-holding simulation from what a real rider’s head unit would report.
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The Fax Is Thinking
August 8’s newborn domains include a chatbot that replies only by fax, an Elmira tax analysis built from 1,689 sales, a map protecting Jeju divers’ precise fishing grounds, and 58 boxes catalogued into one uncle’s 1,113-book library.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-08 Domain Arrivals issue.