Shifty Science: Programmable Matter Takes Shape with Self-Folding Origami Sheets

Researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) have invented a real-life Transformer, a device that can fold itself into two shapes on command. The system is hardly ready to do battle with the Decepticons--the tiny contraption forms only relatively crude boat and airplane shapes--but the concept could one day produce chameleonlike objects that shift between any number of practical shapes at will. [More] Harvard University - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Origami - Paper - Crafts

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