Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto.

With a few folds, brightly-colored squares of paper transform into animals, birds, flowers, and trees. More talented origami enthusiasts also use their skills to create original works based on popular ...

Most everyone’s tried the Japanese art of paper folding. It’s a standard in most elementary arts classes. With many sequestered in tight or shared spaces in their homes, all you need is a small, flat ...

He has made Romulan Warbirds, dinosaurs, the Eiffel Tower, skeletons, space rockets, dwarves, padlocks, the Starship Enterprise, lobsters, dragons, Yoda, galleons…the list goes on…all from simple ...