Packing peanuts are environmentally toxic, wadded paper is imprecise, and bubble wrap—despite its fun—is an inefficient time waster. Enter ExpandOS, a new paper board packing material that can outshine styrofoam.
The ExpandOS system is comprised of a customized paperboard sheet material and an expander machine that rapidly cuts and folds the sheets into three-dimensional triangular structures. The ExpandOS sheets come in reams roughly the size of a box of copy paper, but when fed through the expander, pieces fly out like popcorn and a single ream can create enough widgets to fill a refrigerator box. Serrations on the edges of the structures help the pieces lock together creating a sturdy matrix around the special delivery.
via Wired
January 3, 2014
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