biomimicry

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• Green Wavelength unveils bumblebee inspired wind turbine

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 437
  Gizmag’s pages are filled with clever examples of biomimicry , and why not, evolution is after all the biggest, oldest and most successful design house we know of. Today’s lesson is being given by insects like bumblebees, hummingbirds, and dragonflies, whose efficient wing flapping capabilities are being ...
  2 days ago

• BIM – not your mother’s architecture.

  
  Life at HOK — Authority: 131
  In celebration of ‘the Fifth of November’, aka ‘BIM Day’ I thought I’d post some ideas of what BIM (Building Information Modeling/Management) might look like in the future. This could be 20 years or 30 years, or never, but we should never stop thinking ‘what if’. In fact, recently I’ve been thinking ...
  6 days ago

• How Insects Do Graphic Design

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  Yesterday the exhibition Bits n Pieces launched at Material Connexion in New York, a dialogue between the analog and the digital technologies within design in a post-digital era . What grabbed our attention in the busy space during the opening, were the insects doing graphic design! A sophisticated machine ...
  1 week ago

• Green Wavelength unveils bumblebee inspired wind turbine

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 710
  Gizmags pages are filled with clever examples of biomimicry , and why not, evolution is after all the biggest, oldest and most successful design house we know of. Todays lesson is being given by insects like bumblebees, hummingbirds, and dragonflies, whose efficient wing flapping capabilities are being harnessed by ...
  1 week ago

• The Anthozoans Are Coming to Save Us! Corals Offer Concrete Solutions to Our Carbon Woes

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 626
  The method corals use for building their homes is worlds away from the way humans have been making cement and concrete, but one company has developed an innovative method for using seawater (which corals also utilize to make calcium) to both make cement and sequester carbon dioxide.  
  1 week ago

• Biomimicry and fish habitats

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 433
  An industrial design class at the Cleveland Institute of Art is using a biomimicry approach for devising improvements to fish habitats in the lower Cuyahoga River.
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• The Sahara Forest Project Is a Visionary "Do"

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  Image via Sahara Meteorite Prospecting I recently returned from the Do Lectures in Wales, a collection of talks given by visionary people whove decided to put their ideas into action; to "do." I walked away inspired by nearly all of the lectures, but there was one lecture in particular that got my design juices ...
  1 week ago

• Flapping Wind Turbine Inspired by Bumble Bee Wings

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  Images: Jetson Green Biomimicry is everywhere these days. It seems increasingly clear that design inspired by nature will play a great big role in our energy future. Case in point: Green Wavelength , an up-and-coming California engineering biz, has prototyped a small wind turbine, the xBEE, the elegant flapping ...
  1 week ago

• Pollution-Patrolling Robotic Fish Have "Muscle" Movement Like Real Fish

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  Credit: G.L. Kohuth, Michigan State University Weve heard a lot about robotic fis h over the last year, including that theyll patrol for pollution , and gather information to monitor climate change in the oceans. Michigan State University researchers are bringing another version of a robotic fish to the scene, ...
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• Biomimicry in Medicine: Sharkskin-Inspired Material Stops Bacterial Breakouts

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  Image via PopSci Sharklet Technologies, a Florida-based biotech company, has figured out a way to capitalize on shark skin - specifically on the way parasites and bacteria cant stick to sharks. The trick is in the pattern of the skins surface. Scientists have figured out how to print the pattern onto adhesive film, ...
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• Finisterre Finds Best Path to Staying Warm and Dry is to Act Like an Otter

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 636
  On any given day, you’re likely to find a small team of product designers, material developers and scrappy marketers holed up in a converted mine building in the town of St. Agnes on the North Cornwall coast—unless, of course, the surf is good. At those times, you’re more likely to see these folks, who operate ...
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• Shrimps Eyes Are Biomimetic Solutions to Better DVD Players

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  Photo via Stephen Childs Mantis shrimp - giant shrimp living on Australias Great Barrier Reef - are being eyeballed (har har) as holding solutions to creating a higher quality DVD player, and its all because they have the most complex set of eyes in the animal kingdom. That complexity could be translated into a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shrimp Eyes Polarize Light Just Like a DVD Player, Only Better

  
  80beats — Authority: 653
  A new discovery about how mantis shrimp process light could give rise to new and more powerful consumer electronics, according to a new study . Mantis shrimp possess the animal kingdom’s most complicated eyes, capable of distinguishing between 100,000 colors — 10 times as many as humans — and seeing circular ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mantis Shrimp Eyes Might Inspire New High-Def Devices

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 771
  In the marvelously sensitive eyes of mantis shrimps, scientists have found cells that could inspire an overhaul of humanity’s comparatively clumsy communications hardware. Mechanical analogs of their eyes “are among the most important and commonly used optical components, and the cellular structure we describe ...
  2 weeks ago

• Make Like a Leaf: Next-Gen Paint Could Strike Lotus Pose

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 771
  Lotus leaves stay dry by using the natural vibrations of their environments to shake off water, and manmade materials should be able to mimic the water-repelling technique. New research published today in Physics Review Letters by Duke materials scientist Chuan-Hua Chen has solved a long-standing puzzle: how lotus ...
  2 weeks ago

• At the Bioneers Conference, Living Building Challenge is a Growing Idea

  
  Greener Buildings — Authority: 546
  The Living Building Challenge sets a much higher bar for green buildings than other rating systems, but also allows much more latitude for innovation. Buildings that are striving to meet it criteria have used a number of building and energy-saving methods, including some gleaned from nature.  
  3 weeks ago

• Artificial Photosynthesis to Generate Hydrogen Gets $1.4 Million Funding From DOE

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 624
  A University of Rochester team has been awarded $1.7 million to generate hydrogen fuel with sunlight using artificial photosynthesis and nanotubes. Generating hydrogen without using a fossil fuel is not easy. Using sunlight to split hydrogen off from water has been done before, but the process has not been cheap or ...
  3 weeks ago

• GE, biomimicry, wind and nanopants

  
  Marc Gunther — Authority: 492
  Earlier this week, I visited GE’s Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York, near Albany. Cool place, the home base for about 1,900 scientists, and one of four GE research centers around the world. The others are in Bangalore, Munich and Shanghai. I wrote a column for FORTUNE’s website about GE’s venture ...
  3 weeks ago

• Water Drops on Leaves Inspire Wind Turbine Coatings That De-Ice Themselves

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 726
  photo: Kyknoord via flickr. Theres lots of cool stuff going on with biomimicry these days and on Wednesday I got to see one of the coolest things Ive seen in this arena in a while: Experimental superhydrophobic coatings for wind turbine blades. Inspired by the way water balls up on certain types of leaves, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Evolution in Progress = Cheaters employing Biomimicry for Environmental Policy – Natural leaders are cheater resistant

  
  Bleeding edge blog — Authority: 128
  Nature will tell us that Cooperative social systems are susceptible to cheating by individuals that reap the benefits of cooperation without incurring the costs. The tragedy of the Commons is how economists see this also. But politicians see it as an entirely acceptable form of behaviour.  Diplomats – especially ...
  4 weeks ago

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