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After a 40-year wait, technology finally enables three-sided zipper design (techxplore.com)

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[-] thestrike 12 points 2 weeks ago

Super cool watch the video

[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

The practical usess were pretty mind-blowing.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

They were neat to loook at but not very impressive in practical terms. So you can take 3 semi-floppy coiled things and turn them into one semi-rigid thing. But only one of them can be attached to something, or the actuator won’t be able to move.

The tent application is the closest one to something practical and the tent was not very rigid, nor was there any real advantage to it over conventional methods.

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[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

True, but just to use them for things like adjustable legs - even as just a proof-of-concept was really cool.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yes that was involved and they executed it well.

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