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unusual facts about shape memory



Strange Change Machine

The Strange Change Machine was a Mattel toy from the late 1960s, in which "shape memory" plastic figures of prehistoric animals & science fiction-like creatures could be reconstituted from compressed "time capsule" form, and re-compressed back into that form.


see also

MSMA

Magnetic shape-memory alloy, a type of shape memory material which responds to magnetic fields

Shape-memory polymer

In shape-memory alloys martensitic/austenitic transitions are responsible for the shape-memory effect.