It Took 40 Years for Technology To Catch Up to This Revolutionary Zipper Design
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MIT's 3D-printed "Y-zipper" realizes a 1985 patent with a three-sided fastener that switches objects between floppy and rigid states, enabling fast tent assembly, adjustable medical casts, and shape-shifting robots—lasting ~18,000 cycles.
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