In a few seconds, you can transform a two-dimensional sheet of acrylic into a three-dimensional object.

This shredder was by far the faster shredder we tested. It shreds a sheet of paper in under three seconds. It also has a sensor around the mouth that senses if fingers are around it and shuts the shredder down.

[In]the too solid three-dimensional city, I could never feel myself as anything but spectral, disintegrating, pointless, fluid.

I feel like a three-dimensional girl in a two-dimensional world.

Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way.

For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.