This took Europe $200B and 40 years.
Secret facility in France.
What part do they make in that round thing?
Finally the time has come. Your primitive species has advanced to the point where we can now make ourselves known and offer you an opportunity to join galactic society.
That’s only when you have 4D zippers. Almost there…
I feel I’d have to see it in action, on a use case, to understand its use.
There’s a video in the article showing a few, like pitching a tent and then taking it down.
That tent actually looks useful, if the zippers can hold up.
Yes… Finally… The wait is over.
Have we come far, or gone too far?
Link to video https://youtu.be/AWig98GVIno
It’s everything I never needed.
At a glance, I thought they arranged the zippers to say “smile,” but no, it’s just random patterns.
I’m sure people have said similar things about inventions in the past that now shape our everyday lives.
Hey, that’s pretty cool! I’d be super curious to see how other materials outside of pla (not particularly great for long term outdoor use) or tpu fare, especially with tools like metal printers becoming slightly more accessible.
Also, it might be worth cross posting to !3dprinting@lemmy.world, it’s always nice to see cool and bleeding edge use cases for the technology.
John Zip would be proud that his two dimensional coupler gained an extra dimension of utility today.
to create items with “tunable stiffness.”
Look, I don’t care how many sides it has as long as it doesn’t get stuck on everything.
Thumbnail looks like IUDs
3d printable IUD! Who’s first?
Eh I already got enough plastic in my balls
Very cool, thanks.
