For an object we carry, curse, and replace with alarming regularity, the umbrella has barely evolved. Too small, too flimsy, ...

Nick Statt was a staff reporter for CNET News covering Microsoft, gaming, and technology you sometimes wear. He previously wrote for ReadWrite, was a news associate at the social-news app Flipboard, ...

Eight-year-old PDV Sahruda, from the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, has shattered not one but two world records. (SOUNDBITE) (English) EIGHT-YEAR-OLD RECORD HOLDER, PDV SAHRUDA, SAYING: "I broke ...

As a girl in Shanghai, China, Nancy Bjorge kept her fingers busy folding tiny paper boats. The shapes signified ingots, she says, and her grandmother pressed her to produce them by the hundreds.

Every year, November 11 is observed as World Origami Day to celebrate the visual art of folding paper. Lillian Oppenheimer, who is considered an origami pioneer is known for making the art and the ...

Scientists out of Cornell University have created the world’s smallest origami bird. The creators hope microscopic robots like the origami bird will eventually become as advanced as the macro robotics ...

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Paper Mario: The Origami King, the new Paper Mario game leaked near the beginning of the year and announced a month and a half ago, is shaping up to be a very unique entry in Nintendo's series of RPGs ...

A new round of devices using the Microsoft software will debut at CES, but the minitablet still has a way to go. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders ...

Fold the World combines a origami story book art style with mind-bending puzzles. It's not often that an app game catches my attention these days. There are so many great looking games available that ...

A world-record stampede of origami elephants has descended on the Bronx Zoo, as part of a campaign to raise awareness about poaching. The collection of 78,564 broke the Guinness World Record for the ...

Researchers have created the world's largest DNA origami, which are nanoscale constructions with applications ranging from biomedical research to nanoelectronics. DNA origami are self-assembling ...