Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 1:27pm
Here's a bunch of great Star Wars origami, and a video showing how to make your own Naboo Starfighter at home.
Origami stories
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 6:00am
Folding an origami Wall-E sounds pretty tricky, but this video makes it look so easy. The result is incredible, so be sure to check it out below.
Friday, March 9, 2012 - 11:13am
Origami paper folding has long been a traditional art form, but now researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have been inspired to use paper folding as a way to test for diseases. The idea expands on existing paper sensor tests, but the folding allows it to detect more complex substances and diseases.
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 8:08am
Star Wars has lost its ways. George Lucas, once a great visionary continues to muddle with the classics, adding in unnecessary "Nooo" lines for Darth Vader. Sadly, this stop-motion video ad for Moleskine notebooks is actually quite a refreshing take on a Star Wars space fight — trading in CGI for origami.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 1:55pm
You and I may consider it cheating, but Harvard's Robert Wood and his team have slapped a bunch of tiny actuators onto pieces of origami paper and have taught it to bend itself into different shapes. What could that even be good for, though?
Monday, February 22, 2010 - 5:23am
The PLAY MP3 Player asks you to do an interesting thing to control it: you fold it up every which way. While it's not the most practical idea, it is a rather interesting study of form. For instance, instead of...
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 6:34am
Hawaii resident Won Park's origami first got our attention with his One Dollar Camera. Then we started browsing through his work online, and we discovered a treasure trove of pictures of his origami projects, including paper versions of the...
Friday, June 13, 2008 - 9:44am
A Japanese surgeon showed the precision of the DaVinci surgical system by folding a classic origami crane using the machine's robotic arms. What's more, at the end of the video it's revealed that the crane is no bigger than...
Friday, May 23, 2008 - 1:28pm
You don’t want your lamps to look like everyone else’s, do you? That’s why you might feel like folding your own with this Fold Your Lamp design concept by Thomas Hick. It’s made of a thin sheet of stainless...
