num_pages: 104
description: Space probes self-assembling robots crash-absorbing cars and designer proteins all have one thing in common: their use of folding technologies. To develop these technologies engineers are taking inspiration from an unusual sourceorigami the ancient art of paper folding. Examine origami's origins how it intersects with mathematics and how it became a tool to solve some of the most complicated challenges in engineering architecture technology and medicine today. Plus get a close-up look at these technologies with two augmented reality images included in the book!
language: English
title: Folding Tech: Using Origami and Nature to Revolutionize Technology
publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)