Introduced in 1973, Shrinky Dinks had kids (and crafty adults) creating artwork on flexible sheets of plastic that, when popped in the oven, would magically shrink down to approximately 1/3 their ...

If you’ve ever played with a Shrinky Dink, you’ve seen a shape memory polymer in action. When you put one in the oven, it’ll shrink and harden. Of course, you can’t easily undo a Shrinky ...

a magnetic strip (for making refrigerator magnets), two shrink trays and traceable images. First, the good stuff: Shrinky Dinks rock. Now, the bad: Not included is a 60-watt round clear candelabra ...

They emerged only a portion of their original size, as though they had been zapped with a shrink ray. Morris and Bloomberg called them Shrinky Dinks, and over 3000 of them sold in 10 days.

They come out of the dishwasher clean and ready for the next use. Other kinds of plastic containers bend or shrink when they get too hot. That makes them not-so-reusable as food containers. Let’s see ...

The robot starts as a sheet of a polymer material — the same one used in Shrinky Dink toys, which shrink when heated in an oven — with embedded electronics and motors attached to the top side.