These teen science fair winners almost never amount to anything exceptional, and are a product intense parental supervision. Most universities have wised up.

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nephihaha 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

Sometimes, but I do find his story inspiring. He has taken an age old craft and demonstrated it may have practical applications. I hope he can patent some design based off this and then he can make some money off it. (Yes, I know he didn't invent this particular fold.)

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palata 31 minutes ago | parent [-]

> Yes, I know he didn't invent this particular fold

So how could he patent it?

I join the parent: it's a kid who empirically evaluated how much weight an existing fold can hold. It's not like he solved a hundred years old mathematical problem.

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tehjoker 29 minutes ago | parent [-]

That evaluation has value and the possible use case of strong and cheap emergency housing is interesting though it sounds like it would take substantial work to push it to fruition and would need to be competitive with existing solutions.

	▲	palata 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Did you have a look at the pictures in the article? How would you build housing with that fold?