&438/ Watch to Be Inspired: Merely Folding Paper

Citing TED.com:

• The talk. "Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami - using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful."
• The speaker. "As a first-grader, Lang proved far too clever for elementary mathematics and quickly became bored, prompting his teacher to give him a book on origami. His acuity for mathematics would lead him to become a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, and the owner of nearly fifty patents on lasers and optoelectronics. Now a professional origami master, Lang practices his craft as both artist and engineer, one day folding the smallest of insects and the next the largest of space-bound telescope lenses."

TED Talks 2008, Robert Lang. View the talk!