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14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 9 points 4 months ago

How does this kid look simultaneously 14 and 47?

[–] UnfinishedProjects@piefed.zip 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pretty cool! Be neat to see how it can be used in application

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well given that this was a competition organised by Thermo Fisher they likely now own the rights to the idea.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago

Corporate Vampires

[–] soyaboya@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 months ago

😦

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah? Well, I woke up this morning.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

The patterns look a bit Escher-esque to me