The ancient art of origami has been inspiring engineers and designers for decades. The principles behind this Japanese folding technique have been appropriated by everyone from solar array designers ...

Origami, the Japanese art of folding paper, doesn’t seem like it could help stop bullets. But mechanical engineers at Brigham Young University have developed a new ballistic shield design for law ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the University of Queensland have created the HappyShield, an origami face shield that is made by folding a sheet of clear plastic. By folding along the ...

Law enforcement may soon have better protection, thanks to BYU engineers and the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. BYU engineers developed a portable shield used to create a safe line of cover ...

It's foldable like origami, but it's as strong as Kevlar. A team of engineers from Brigham Young University successfully developed an ingenious new bulletproof shield inspired by origami but which can ...

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SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ATCS (Advanced Technology Compliant Solutions) today introduced a true step forward in ballistic protection with the Swift Shield. The patented design is based on ...