Don’t want to spend money to give your rooms a little lift? Well, chances are you don’t have to. Most of us have everyday objects stuck on our shelves or collecting dust in our cabinets that can ...

Chuck Hoberman's eponymous sphere is one of the best-loved toys of the last quarter century. But it's only one example of his incredible work in transformable design. From adaptive nanotech to ...

3-D printers have been around since the 1980s, but we are still far from maximizing their potential. One active area of research is 'self-actuating' objects: flat materials that transform themselves ...

Researchers from the Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University introduced a novel method for fabricating functional flat-to-shape objects ...

Artificially intelligent algorithms that create images are notoriously difficult to predict and control. But now researchers at Adobe have devised AI-controlled software that lets you transform the ...