WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--It started as child’s play. In 1996, Nathan Cohen took his son’s beach sand molds and coated them with copper tape, making a new class of 3D structures: folded ...

When you think of origami, the first thing that may come to your mind is a children's pastime, and creations such as simple cranes, frogs or other animals, and maybe a boat or a paper hat. In fact, ...

If you find yourself without a stand for your iPhone or iPod but have a $100 bill or even a one dollar bill in your wallet, you can create a neat little stand using a bit of origami. This clever trick ...

Long before the 3D printer, origami was the original genius at creating lifelike forms out of a flat surface. Folding brings with it the ability to collapse, flex and unfurl structures at will, which ...

There was a time when there was no 3D printers and origami was the key to creating lifelike forms out of a flat surface. The art of origami- folding, collapsing, flexing and unfurling structures at ...

Here’s a fun exercise – take a piece of paper and use a compass to draw two concentric circles that define a ring. Then replace the pencil in the compass with a hard tip to indent a concentric crease ...

The intersection of art and technology is a fascinating place, and researchers often use works of art to practice or demonstrate techniques that can have more practical applications later on.

Now, he designs and folds pieces for collectors and art galleries, while contributing to a growing field of practical applications in space research, medical technology and other fields. “There’s been ...

The art of origami goes back centuries -- enough time to explore every possible crease that can be made in a sheet of paper, one might think. And yet, researchers have now found a new class of origami ...