cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/51541446
After a 40-year wait, technology finally enables three-sided zipper design
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-year-technology-enables-sided-zipper.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-year-technology-enables-sided-zipper.html
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/51541446
27 Comments
unabart@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 104d
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.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 103d
My and my best bro's pants will never be unteathered. Just like our brohood.
blarth@thelemmy.club · 14 pts · 104d
Do we need this?
Ithi@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 104d
If only there was an article that told us what this would help with.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 103d
It's a large penis thing. If you know, you know.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 103d
And vagina.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 103d
I am a feminist.
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 103d
One with a video showing a bunch of neat things you can do with it you say !
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 104d
mech@feddit.org · 7 pts · 104d
You don't even need regular zippers.
It's perfectly possible to survive without them.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 103d
Found Phil Swift's account.
mech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 103d
Me and my crew on our way to your mom's
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 103d
it's so you can get both balls caught in the zipper at the same time! I'm not sure though as I didn't read the article
thestrike@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 103d
Super cool watch the video
brax@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 103d
The practical usess were pretty mind-blowing.
scarabic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 103d
They were neat to loook at but not very impressive in practical terms. So you can take 3 semi-floppy coiled things and turn them into one semi-rigid thing. But only one of them can be attached to something, or the actuator won’t be able to move.
The tent application is the closest one to something practical and the tent was not very rigid, nor was there any real advantage to it over conventional methods.
🤷♂️
brax@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 103d
True, but just to use them for things like adjustable legs - even as just a proof-of-concept was really cool.
scarabic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 103d
Yes that was involved and they executed it well.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 104d
Missed opportunity to spell smile
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 103d
WTF am I even reading?
m0darn@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 103d
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.
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 103d
A compact'ish long travel, mostly strong at pulling, linear actuator could probably find some use.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 103d
This could only happen in the gravity of a flat earth. /s
flango@lemmy.eco.br · 3 pts · 103d
Coolest thing ever
Smoogs@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 103d
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.
Krauerking@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 103d
The Future has arrived!
hark@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 103d
The robot with the legs that can be extended or packed into compartments (shown at 2:34 in the video) is really cool!
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 103d
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 0 pts · 103d
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