Creators never stop trying to conceptualize and test new objects that might be the next big thing, whether it's in terms of sales or in terms of helping society. Chuck Hoberman, artist, inventor, and tinkerer continues to develop new materials and objects. Hoberman is now creating objects for the future, as Discover Magazine details:
Which brings us back to that ruler and the objects to the left. They’re the future: An entirely new taxa of inflatable, origami-based structures that he’s asked me not to describe in detail, partly because they’re not published or patented yet, and partly because they’re not his alone.
They’re the kernels of wild design projects with engineers, roboticists, computer scientists, an origami expert, mathematicians and even biologists. They run the gamut from soft robotics (how can we fold up bots that can help people in disaster areas anywhere?) to collapsible habitats (how can I pack an origami house into my backpack, and take it to the moon as a place to live?) to printable, inflatable, replaceable organs (how can I pack the most blood vessels into the least surface area?).
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