Origami, the Japanese art of folding paper, doesn’t seem like it could help stop bullets. But mechanical engineers at Brigham Young University have developed a new ballistic shield design for law ...

Engineers with Brigham Young University have developed a new type of foldable bulletproof shield called the origami shield, and it aims to keep police officers safe from handgun bullets without being ...

Unless modern criminals are easily distracted by paper cranes, “life-saving” probably isn’t the first word you’d think to use to describe the ancient Japanese paper-folding art of origami. That may be ...

There's origami strewn everywhere in the Compliant Mechanisms Research Group's lab at Brigham Young University. The intricately folded designs aren't just for decoration, and they go way beyond the ...

Although the bulletproof shields used by police officers are definitely life-savers, the things are also quite heavy and bulky. The origami-inspired Swift Shield offers an alternative, as it folds ...

(KUTV) BYU engineering professors have developed a lightweight Kevlar shield in hopes of better protecting law enforcement. According to BYU News, the origami-inspired shield is made up of "12 layers ...

The ancient art of origami has been inspiring engineers and designers for decades. The principles behind this Japanese folding technique have been appropriated by everyone from solar array designers ...

BYU mechanical engineers have created an origami-inspired, lightweight bulletproof shield that can protect law enforcement from gunfire. The new ballistic barrier can be folded compactly when not in ...

PROVO, Utah - A team at Brigham Young University is developing a lightweight, compact bullet-proof shield that also folds up in an origami-inspired design. The team's intent was to protect police and ...

A team of engineers at Brigham Young University have built a futuristic shield for law enforcement that can stop handgun bullets. The shield borrows its shape from origami and is much lighter than ...