The Man Behind a Mysterious Miniature Town

How cool! A retro miniature town. Check out this artist's miniatures (and the story behind it) of his 1950s utopian town...

Artist Michael Paul Smith created a 1950s utopian town out of miniatures based on stories and moments from his childhood. When photographs of the town, Elgin Park, went viral, Smith, a self-proclaimed recluse, had to work through coming to terms with his fame. In this short from Animal East, the modelmaker talks about his life and how he's coped and connected with fans of his work.

National Geographic

Baby miniature horse chasing a person 1(2 Videos)

This dog disguised as a horse is said to be only 3 days old... wait a minute, it's a miniature horse, sorry. This tiny horse is only 3 days old and already it's running around chasing its owner and melting the viral waves with his cuteness...

Sterling Bartow

Miniature Origami Robot Self-folds, Walks, Swims, and Degrades

Oh, the possibilities! This tiny little thing they call a miniature origami robot is a unique drone specimen which weighs a third of a gram and is just 1.7 cm long. It starts out as a flat paper or polystyrene wafer which once activated via a small heat source, folds itself up into the complex shape you see above and can begin to do various tasks such as swim, climb a slope, carry a load and more! 

The drone's movement, recently revealed by MIT, is "powered" by two sets of magnets: a neodymium magnet integrated into the robot itself and another four electromagnetic coils located under the operating surface that attract and repel the onboard magnet as needed.

IEEE Spectrum

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