Origami kayak
From Superinnovators 22/02/24 US-based Oru Kayak (f. 2012), renowned for its origami-inspired folding kayaks, crowdfunded the Oru Lake model in 2022, a craft that unfolds from a portable box into a sleek, lightweight kayak in under a minute. This base model is priced at £394 ($499), with 7.7kg weight, and 113kg capacity, and is designed […]
Origami sensors could be wrapped around your organs to detect disease
From University of Southern California 28/08/23 Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering looked to origami to create new sensors that could someday be employed to detect deformations in organs and also for use in wearables and soft robotics. Their paper, “High-Stretchability and Low-Hysteresis Strain Sensors Using Origami-Inspired 3D Mesostructures,” featured in Science Advances […]