Back when i was 16 I was hoping I'd see the day when the triple zipper became a reality. I never gave up hope. Here we are today. At long last. Take my money.

Missed opportunity to spell smile

Super cool watch the video

I like the actuators. Industry already uses zipper drives for some applications but the ability for actuator to have a preset curve could be pretty useful.

This could only happen in the gravity of a flat earth. /s

Coolest thing ever

Do we need this?

Jiaji also notes that some applications remain unexplored, like space exploration, wherein Y-zipper's tentacles could be built into a spacecraft to grab nearby rock samples.

WTF am I even reading?

Like how the tent still has a regular zipper to get in and out for the practicality that you will piss yourself if you have to take time to unzip à tent flap.

The robot with the legs that can be extended or packed into compartments (shown at 2:34 in the video) is really cool!

The Future has arrived!

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I feel I'd have to see it in action, on a use case, to understand its use.

Yes... Finally... The wait is over.

Link to video https://youtu.be/AWig98GVIno

Finally the time has come. Your primitive species has advanced to the point where we can now make ourselves known and offer you an opportunity to join galactic society.

Hey, that's pretty cool! I'd be super curious to see how other materials outside of pla (not particularly great for long term outdoor use) or tpu fare, especially with tools like metal printers becoming slightly more accessible.

Also, it might be worth cross posting to !3dprinting@lemmy.world, it's always nice to see cool and bleeding edge use cases for the technology.

John Zip would be proud that his two dimensional coupler gained an extra dimension of utility today.

I'm sure people have said similar things about inventions in the past that now shape our everyday lives.

to create items with "tunable stiffness."

It's everything I never needed.

I'm not cinical, but this is likely the 4th or 5th time someone has made a 3 sided zipper in my lifetime.

At a glance, I thought they arranged the zippers to say "smile," but no, it's just random patterns.

Have we come far, or gone too far?

Very cool, thanks.

Thumbnail looks like IUDs

Super cool

I'm getting Faces of Death vibes from that music in the video (at least in the tent scene).

This is fascinating. Sure wish they released the design tool so we could play with it.

I mean, lik, at a certain point, this becomes about nothing less than reinventing the human bunghole

Where's the part where each of three zipper parts is attached to fabric?

missed opportunity to call it the yipper

LOL! Silly