Two-sided platforms have the property of being able to scale extremely well through a flywheel-like virtuous circle: more riders attract more drivers, which attract more riders, which attract more drivers, etc. Uber grew at an unprecedented rate for a physical (as opposed to purely virtual) business (Lien 2015).
A mouse with a heavy, free-scrollable, flywheel-like mouse sometimes marketed as "hyper-fast" scrolling reduces finger and wrist motion and increases speed of skimming large documents as one generally need only guide it to start and stop: it keeps itself moving.
Passengers can continue hailing cabs off the street and pay using traditional methods, but will have the option of hailing and paying for a cab through the Flywheel app, like they would an Uber or Lyft.
But like the flywheel of a spin bike, no amount of sleep or rest could stop the effects of momentum on my organs.
The steady sound of friction generated from pedaling the 40-pound flywheel at what feels like light speed, in a full studio of riders, forming a peloton in flight drops me into flow.
Flywheels are like mechanical batteries, turning electricity into kinetic energy that keeps a wheel spinning inside a vacuum chamber until the energy is needed again.
We have recently seen funding for the likes of Flywheel (which focuses on designers), Pantheon (which started out as a Drupal platform but has now expanded into WordPress), among others.
This has pressured the relative latecomers to innovate with new combinations of motors, clutches and transmissions — and even stretch into experimental technologies like flywheel hybrids.
Pentadyne's clean-energy, high-speed carbon fibre flywheel system works like a dynamic battery, storing energy kinetically by spinning a mass about an axis.
Meanwhile, even cabbies today can be e-hailed through apps like Flywheel.
There's also growing awareness around traditional taxi-hailing apps like Flywheel and Taxi Magic.
