Pierce a blue button and what you encounter appears, surprisingly, akin to a tree. Concentric rings of chitin, the same substance that constitutes crab shells, compressed into a disc no broader than your thumbnail. Each ring chronicles growth added at the outer edge, layer by layer, as the colony drifts wherever the Pacific current dictates. […]

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Point a traditional 3D sensor at a chrome-plated ball bearing and observe its failure. The laser light intended to bounce back to the detector and reveal the object’s geometry instead reflects at angles determined by the surface’s curvature, most of it traveling in unhelpful directions. The sensor, effectively, perceives almost nothing. The same issue arises […]

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