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Jan 28 16 12:04 AM
http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/adult-human-ear-grown-on-a-rat-160125.htm?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link
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A team of researchers from Harvard University have designed a unique type of foldable material that is versatile, tunable and self actuated. The material can be programmed to change its size, volume and shape; and amazingly it can collapse into a flat sheet to withstand the weight of an elephant without breaking, and pop right back up to prepare for the subsequent task. “We’ve designed a three-dimensional, thin-walled structure that can be used to make foldable and reprogrammable objects of arbitrary architecture, whose shape, volume and stiffness can be dramatically altered and continuously tuned and controlled,” said Johannes T. B. Overvelde, author of the paper, in a news release. Inspired by an origami technique known as snapology, researchers developed the “metametarial” using extruded cubes with 24 faces and 36 edges, so that the cube, like origami can be folded along its edges to change shape. As MailOnline noted, the technique is also known as unit or modular origami and it involves constructing multiple identical elements and assembling these into a larger model.
A team of researchers from Harvard University have designed a unique type of foldable material that is versatile, tunable and self actuated. The material can be programmed to change its size, volume and shape; and amazingly it can collapse into a flat sheet to withstand the weight of an elephant without breaking, and pop right back up to prepare for the subsequent task.
“We’ve designed a three-dimensional, thin-walled structure that can be used to make foldable and reprogrammable objects of arbitrary architecture, whose shape, volume and stiffness can be dramatically altered and continuously tuned and controlled,” said Johannes T. B. Overvelde, author of the paper, in a news release.
Inspired by an origami technique known as snapology, researchers developed the “metametarial” using extruded cubes with 24 faces and 36 edges, so that the cube, like origami can be folded along its edges to change shape. As MailOnline noted, the technique is also known as unit or modular origami and it involves constructing multiple identical elements and assembling these into a larger model.
Read more @ http://sparkonit.com/2016/03/12/origami-inspired-foldable-material-can-change-size-volume-shape/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link
Terminator here we come!
Apr 1 16 11:47 PM
THE United States Air Force wants to fry your phone. And your computer. And your car. It’s investing millions into modifying missiles into weaponised microwave ovens.The devastating power of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) has long been associated with nuclear war.It’s a flash of raw electromagnetic energy through the atmosphere that fuses delicate electronics into irreparable smoking scrap.The problem has always been the nuclear bit: Using one to fry a phone network would have been overkill.Not to mention a trigger for an almost inevitable ‘mutually assured destruction’ escalation.So the US military has been seeking less lethal ways of sowing confusion among its enemies.Enter flying microwave ovens.
THE United States Air Force wants to fry your phone. And your computer. And your car. It’s investing millions into modifying missiles into weaponised microwave ovens.
The devastating power of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) has long been associated with nuclear war.
It’s a flash of raw electromagnetic energy through the atmosphere that fuses delicate electronics into irreparable smoking scrap.
The problem has always been the nuclear bit: Using one to fry a phone network would have been overkill.
Not to mention a trigger for an almost inevitable ‘mutually assured destruction’ escalation.
So the US military has been seeking less lethal ways of sowing confusion among its enemies.
Enter flying microwave ovens.
Read more @ http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/us-air-force-modifies-cruise-missiles-to-carry-electromagnetic-pulse-generators--to-destroy-electronics-from-a-distance/news-story/f1898c65dd851fe23f2fca578db83b2b