It's easy to fold a tiny paper origami boat that 'sails' - but a new full-sized foldable plastic boat can sail with a person inside, and folds out from a single flat sheet in just two minutes.

Fitted sheets are notoriously difficult to fold. It goes a little like this: violently folding and refolding the sheet, sighing in frustration, cursing and eventually balling it up and throwing it ...

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 ...