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    Origami-Inspired Collapsible Shield Can Stop Bullets

    by Stav Ziv Apr 21, 2017 2 minutes
    A demonstration of the Deployable Ballistic Barrier created by Howell's team at Brigham Young University Mechanical Engineering, on November 1, 2016.
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    There’s origami strewn everywhere in the Compliant Mechanisms Research Group’s lab at Brigham Young University. The intricately folded designs aren’t just for decoration, and they go way beyond the cranes you might have whipped up as a child. These origami provide the inspiration for the researchers’ mechanical engineering projects, such

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