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Early in 2014, an upstart named Daylight Computer Company revealed a tablet called DC-1. The company proudly labeled it as "the world's first 60fps paper-like computer." Its CEO, Anjan Katta, has ...

Paper folded according to the rules of origami can theoretically perform any computation imaginable, from adding numbers to running the latest artificial intelligence software, though in practice this ...