Ok now if you thought 3D printing was the future they are already talking about 4D printing. What does that even mean? What is the fourth dimension? In this case they are referring to ojects being able to move after they have been 3d printed (on their own..wow)
The scientist spearheading this at MIT can be described as having these motives:
He’s hoping 4D printing will be the thing of the not-so-far future.
The name for his concept, Tibbits admits, was a bit lighthearted at first. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tibbits and researchers from the firms Stratasys and Autodesk Inc were trying to come up with a way of describing the objects they were creating on 3D printers—objects that not only could be printed, but thanks to geometric code, could also later change shape and transform on their own.
Let’s learn more about how they come closer to 4D on the next page
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