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Playful Kirigami: Touch-Activated Paper Animals Pop into Action

Acting out scenes from storybooks or animating real activities, these deceptively simple-looking, folded-paper toys leap, bounce, roll and hatch into action when played with. Japanese ...

Behind the Curtain Wall: Theatrical Facade Rotates Around Cultural Center

This mesmerizing mobile facade is an aesthetic and engineering marvel, but one has to wonder: could the mechanisms behind it be appropriated for other architectural purposes, like: providing ...

Beast of a Bicycle! Mechanical Modification With a Spider-Like Walk

This bizarre new take on the Strandbeest bicycle isn’t going to get you from point A to point B much faster than a casual stroll, but it’s fun to watch, with the rear mechanical mechanism ...

Not Your Average Model Train: Self-Propelled Mechanical Toys

There are no batteries or power cords needed to propel this steam train and a series of other mechanical models, which come in kits of laser-cut plywood so you can assemble them yourself. UGEARS ...

3D-Printed Spider Dress Attacks When Anyone Comes Too Close

No worries about anyone invading your personal space when you're wearing this intricate 3D-printed dress, which extends animatronic spider-inspired arms when it senses another person's presence ...

Kinetic Facade: Awesome Adaptive Window Shading System

Buildings are forever in tension, being static objects in a dynamic world - light conditions in particular shift predictably yet variably throughout the day, week, season and year, in turn ...

Walk on Water: Hydro-Floors Hide Secret Swimming Pools

Adding a swimming pool or hot tub means displacing something else - usually a outdoor lawn, yard or deck or dedicated room inside a house. But what if you could have the best of both worlds: a ...

Expand on Demand: Secret Deck Spaces for Small Dwellings

When it comes to tall apartment and condo buildings, the idea of adding more space is almost always out of the question - but what if you could push a balcony outward on demand, rather than ...

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