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Take two young guys with college degrees in architecture and public policy. Mix in frequent moving from apartment to apartment, and you have design inspiration. Such were the ingredients that led ...

3-D printers have been around since the 1980s, but we are still far from maximizing their potential. One active area of research is 'self-actuating' objects: flat materials that transform ...

OpenDesk and Baltimore-based Object Guerrilla have developed the Zip Tie Lounge Chair, a new flat-pack offering that can be assembled with 44 zip ties.

In their paper, titled “Creating Furniture-Scale Deployable Objects with a Computer-Controlled Sewing Machine,” they describe a collection of functional flat-to-shape artifacts they created ...