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An expandable table. A collapsible CNC router. Motorized wheels whose diameter can enlarge and contract depending on the terrain. These are a few of the examples of "transformable design" now on display from the course, "Mechanical Invention Through Computation" led by visiting designer, engineer and inventor Chuck Hoberman. The seminar, co-taught with MIT professors Erik Demaine and Daniela Rus from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), was driven by a simple question: How  can you create new transformable objects? This is the question that has shaped Hoberman's unique 20-year career at the nexus of art and science, design and engineering. In 1990, he patented the Hoberman sphere: a mechanism resembling a geodesic dome that was created from a series of scissor-like joints (similar to those found on a cherry picker) allowing the object to expand and contract. Since then, Hoberman has invented a  variety of shape-shifting products ranging in scale from toys, shelters, stage sets, medical devices, sculptures, buildings and furniture. There seems to be no end to the potential applications for these kinds of dynamic products, which use kinematics — the geometry of motion  — to produce surprising and unique movements. With Demaine and  Rus, the course investigated how this kind of mechanical invention could be further optimized using mathematical analysis and computational processes. According to the exhibit text, "The inventive process itself is ripe for innovation." Like Hoberman, both Demaine and Rus have also built their careers researching reconfigurable forms, making breakthroughs in the areas of programmable matter and computational origami respectively. Together, they have developed a sheet that can assemble into three-dimensional shapes of its own accord — such as a boat or a paper airplane — similar to the way that proteins found in nature can fold and refold into complex shapes to achieve different behaviors. The resulting student projects ranged in scale and function, from pin joints that could only be seen with a microscope to large retractable tables. There was a DIY expandable lamp created completely from off-the-shelf materials; a foldable trapezoidal kite modeled after one designed by Alexander Graham Bell; a winged Phoenix-like sculpture based on a J.G. Ballard science fiction story; forex growth bot review skirt that used "inflatable origami" to change size and shape. Every project was the result of continual prototyping with different types of designs and materials, employing methods both digital and physical. This kind of mechanical intelligence is the wave of the future, as  programming meets material to create supple and versatile new forms. In a world defined by flux, we increasingly require products and structures to be flexible, dynamic, and responsive to their changing environments. By transforming the process of invention — a creative act at the intersection of the technical, the scientific and the expressive — the course helped prepare the next generation  of inventors for this challenge. "We're really just beginning to scratch the surface," Hoberman said at the exhibit's opening. The exhibit will be on view through June 20 in the Ray and Maria Stata Center, third floor, Room 32-338. The exhibit was co-presented by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST). The Times's Isabel Kershner on what Israelis expect from a visit by President Obama.The State University of New York board will now resubmit its plan to shut down Long Island College Hospital to the State Health Department. develop advanced mathematical methods for multiphysics and multiscale problems driven by frontier DOE applications, including those in subsurface energy and environmental flows, materials for energy storage  and conversion, and climate systems Ms. Alain’s 300 recordings include, on organs of different periods, J. S. Bach’s complete organ works and collaborations with the trumpeter Maurice André. Half the states now allow drivers to show digital proof of insurance on a smart phone. Wayne Rooney told Alex Ferguson he wanted a transfer before Ferguson’s retirement in May, but Manchester United’s new manager, David Moyes, said Rooney was not going anywhere. Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets across the country, protesting the corruption and social inequities that make up life in this booming, emerging Latin American giant. UNITED NATIONS -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Afghans must overcome "major obstacles" to demonstrate their ability to control the country's future, including a dispute over the status of parliament and an impasse over the embattled Kabul Bank. An extensive exhibition at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City provides a larger perspective behind  the Japanese google sniper works. “Marble Season,†by Gilbert Hernandez, is No. 2 on the hardcover list  this week. The six fiberglass dioramas depict painstakingly detailed scenes of how Ai Weiwei spent his days while locked up by the Chinese government. Many lawyers have found that if you  have a legal complaint against New York City’s school system, you have to sue the department or the Board of Education, which many thought was abolished. CAIRO - Partial results from a third of Egypt's provinces Sunday showed massive turnout and a vote overwhelmingly in favor of constitutional changes that eliminate restrictions on political rights and civil liberties. It's time to answer your garden questions again -- in winter, when time is spent out of the garden, planning what can be done to enhance it in spring. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is pushing for 400,000 new  visas for foreign workers, a demand that has been met with fierce resistance by labor unions and which could help derail an agreement between the two sides over an immigration reform bill being developed in Congress. Read full article >> With investors’ focus on the Federal Reserve’s policy statement due later in the day, shares on Wall Street traded higher. President Barack Obama  on Friday presented MIT professors Sallie (Penny) Chisholm and Robert Langer with the nation’s highest honors for scientific discovery and invention. They were among 22 eminent scientists nationwide honored during a  White House ceremony.Chisholm, the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies, was presented the National Medal of Science for her research on photosynthetic marine organisms. Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor — who won the 2006 National Medal of Science — received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation for inventing new and different ways to administer drugs to patients. “We are so grateful to all of you,†Obama said to the 12 science medal recipients and 10 technology medal recipients during the ceremony. “The incredible contributions that you’ve made have enhanced our lives in immeasurable ways, in ways that are practical but also inspirational. And so we know that you are going to continue to inspire and in many cases teach the next generation of inventors and scientists who will discover things that we can’t even dream of at this point.†Want to foster your kids' love of art, but get tired of picking micro niche finder download pieces of paper and broken crayons off the floor all the time? Set them up with an art easel! The sadistic Willy Wonka oversees a mega-factory run on slave labour and chooses the boy least likely to succeed as a businessmanWith two film versions, and now a West End musical, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is probably Roald Dahl's most popular kids' tales. And the moral of that tale? Basically, don't complain about starving to death, while living in the shadow of a giant factory full of food (most of which presumably goes uneaten), wait around in your hovel until some sadistic fat cat decides to randomly award you a benevolent gift for being the most passive kid in the world.The chocolate factory of the title is a mega-factory that relies on slave labour, with hastily whitewashed racist overtones. In its shadow lives noble  Charlie. His dad works shovelling snow since he lost his job and the whole family are starving. No wonder Saint Charlie wants to win  the lottery, aka find a golden ticket. And if you'll excuse the spoiler, he totally does. So do four other kids. Unfortunately, these turn out to be the four worst kids in the world – simply by being four kids who aren't paragons of Victorian silent virtue.When these kids act like kids, eating the sweets that they are invited to eat and messing with stuff, they have violent, cruel accidents, which we're meant to applaud. Ha ha, they totally deserve it for being disgustingly fat. Or for chewing gum. (Hey, wait though, doesn't this factory make gum?) Or for watching television. In the theatrical spectacular, Mike Teavee's terrible vice has become video games, because, well, because yawn, frankly. And dammit, don't kids today know it's wrong to ask for a magical, glittery human-sized squirrel? But who among us isn't guilty of these things? I know I can raise my hand to all of them. Especially the squirrel. Damn.But the fate of shy fatty Augustus Gloop touches my heart the most. What chance did he have? He's in a chocolate factory. He's in the "chocolate room". He's there because he won a ticket by eating chocolate, as part of a competition which was a marketing exercise to sell more chocolate. But fat people don't know how to behave around food, do they? He dares to drink fat burning furnace chocolate river and faster than you can say, back away from the doughnuts, fatty, he is sucked into a pipe to his possible death. So c'mon kids let's all sing along with this fat-shaming song about how much the Oompah Loompas would like to kill the "great big greedy nincompoop".And Willy Wonka is so distracted by his ironic child punishments, he messes up. Because who would you actually bequeath a chocolate  factory to? A quiet boy who really, really likes chocolate? A girl who is a world champion at consuming one of the products your factory makes? A boy who is well versed in the cultural field you're about to enter? Or a girl who may be a bit of a psychopath but would probably do very well in the world of business?Of course, we know, none of these children with actual personalities are chosen. The factory goes to Charlie. A boy so nondescript we'd forget his name if it wasn't part of the alliterative title. He's never going to be able to run a factory. He barely speaks when other kids are almost killed in front of him. Slugworth will be launching a hostile takeover within weeks and be all over that place with his evil health and safety compliance and vicious minimum wage.Yeah, I know none of the kids really die. It's fine – they're just horribly injured and psychologically damaged. I know the situations are heightened and cartoonish. And I know it's a morality tale like Shockheaded Peter, but those children were bullies  and pyromaniacs, not shy fatties. Chocolate manufacturers punishing fat kids. Magical.Roald DahlMusicalsTheatreLondonWest EndDavid GreigChildrenSam MendesMathilda Gregoryguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds More people died in New York City traffic last year than the year before, but officials said there is a long-term trend of reduced fatalities. The move seems simple: the Rockets sign Dwight Howard and become instant contenders. In fact, it was the culmination of a two-year campaign based on hope and hunches. The Times's Jeffrey A. Gettleman talks with citizens about their election choices and hopes for the new term. Seth Curry scored 20 points in his final home game and No. 3 Duke pulled away to beat  Virginia Tech 85-57 on Tuesday |
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