3D printing has grown in sophistication since the late 1970s; TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits is shaping the next development, which he calls 4D printing, where the fourth dimension is time. This...
========== Translator: Timothy Covell
Reviewer: Morton BastThis is me building a prototypefor six hours straight.This is slave labor to my own project.This is what the DIY and maker movements really look like.And this is an analogy for today's construction and manufacturing worldwith brute-force assembly techniques.And this is exactly why I started studyinghow to program physical materials to build themselves.But there is another world.Today at the micro- and nanoscales,there's an unprecedented revolution happening.And this is the ability to program physical and biological materialsto change shape, change propertiesand even compute outside of silicon-based matter.There's even a software called cadnanothat allows us to design three-dimensional shapeslike nan...
