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Printing in "4D" might sound like something cooked up for a sci-fi novel, but it's actually a real object printing technique that builds on what's already possible with current 3D printers in mind ...

4D printed objects change their shape automatically in response to temperature fluctuations. This is only the beginning of a promising new field that will program movements into objects, without the n ...

A 4D printed hat using a new 2D technique [Source: Narumi] Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a way to 2D print 3D objects. That’s something that might not make sense at first, but ...

Wherein most 3D printers are designed to create objects that have to remain rigid in structure and shape, 4D printing, as it is called, allows the 3D printed objects to change their shape and ...

I show you what crazy stuff would happen if a 4th-dimensional being were to move 4D objects through our 3D space,” says the video’s description. Using drawings, a silver sphere, ...