At some point in everyone’s life—usually during a particularly dull moment in third grade—a plain white piece of paper inspires a certain degree of aerial imagination. Transforming this thin white ...

Learn how to make paper airplanes with these easy-to-follow directions. Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper. Finished designs can be 2-dimensional or intricate 3-dimensional creations. And ...

If you’re too lazy to launch your own paper airplanes, then you need one of these fun gadgets, the Electric Paper Plane Launcher. The Electric Paper Plane Launcher was designed at Middlesex University ...

We've all made the standard paper airplane, that elongated triangle made up of six simple folds. But what if you wanted to make a paper airplane that looks like an armadillo? Could you get that to fly ...

Every now and again we stumble across something a bit unexpected, and today that’s the fact that there have been quite a few efforts at launching paper planes from as close to space as possible. The ...

Aeronautical engineer Ken Blackburn has a difficult goal — building kids’ enthusiasm for paper planes in an age when children can fly virtual fighter jets and spacecraft from their living room sofas ...

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. I suck ...