simple origami fold may hold the key to designing pop up furniture, medical devices and scientific tools /

What whether you could produce any object out of a flat sheet of paper? That future is on the horizon thanks to new research by L. Mahadevan,the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, or Physics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). He is also a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering,and member of the Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, at Harvard University.

Source: phys.org