{"id":27254,"date":"2026-05-25T11:45:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/05\/25\/it-took-40-years-for-technology-to-catch-up-to-this-revolutionary-zipper-design-3\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:45:02","slug":"it-took-40-years-for-technology-to-catch-up-to-this-revolutionary-zipper-design-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/05\/25\/it-took-40-years-for-technology-to-catch-up-to-this-revolutionary-zipper-design-3\/","title":{"rendered":"It Took 40 Years for Technology To Catch Up to This Revolutionary Zipper Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/it-took-40-years-for-technology-to-catch-up-to-this-revolutionary-zipper-design\/\" title=\"It Took 40 Years for Technology To Catch Up to This Revolutionary Zipper Design\"><\/a>A decades-old patent from MIT Professor Bill Freeman inspired the new \u201cY-zipper,\u201d a three-sided fastener that can snap gear, robots, and art into shape with the push of a button. Long before shape-shifting robots and self-assembling structures became engineering goals, one MIT professor had already imagined a zipper that could transform floppy materials into rigid [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decades-old patent from MIT Professor Bill Freeman inspired the new \u201cY-zipper,\u201d a three-sided fastener that can snap gear, robots, and art into shape with the push of a button. Long before shape-shifting robots and self-assembling structures became engineering goals, one MIT professor had already imagined a zipper that could transform floppy materials into rigid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/05\/25\/it-took-40-years-for-technology-to-catch-up-to-this-revolutionary-zipper-design-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It Took 40 Years for Technology To Catch Up to This Revolutionary Zipper Design&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}