Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of engineers in Montréal has reinvented the parachute using kirigami, the ancient art of paper cutting. (CREDIT: Frédérick ...

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Researchers used kirigami, the art of Japanese paper cutting and folding, to develop ultrastrong, lightweight materials that have tunable mechanical properties, like stiffness and flexibility. These ...

The new mechanical computer uses 64 physical cubes to represent binary bits and is inspired by kirigami — the Japanese art of paper-folding and cutting. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

These parachutes may be full of holes, but they really hit the mark. Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, or paper cutting, scientists made parachutes that open automatically when dropped. And ...

TOKYO -- A parachute devised using techniques from Japan's traditional paper art "kirigami," which produces 3D designs though cutting and folding, could be utilized in humanitarian airdrops. A ...

A humble concept from ancient Japanese design might remake the way supplies are dropped from the air. Polytechnique Montréal engineers designed parachutes based on kirigami—cutting paper into ...

image: MIT researchers used kirigami, the art of Japanese paper cutting and folding, to develop ultrastrong, lightweight materials that have tunable mechanical properties, like stiffness and ...