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BIOMIMICRY

For any human engineering or design problem we face today, the chances are good that over the last billion or so years nature has devised and optimized at least one elegant, holistic, sustainable solution. Biomimicry actively seeks out those best-in-class designs and "manufacturing" methods and applies them to today's pressing needs. Biomimicry can improve businesses by helping them find nature’s best ideas and then imitate these designs and processes to solve problems.

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‘Artificial Forest’ Nanosystem Mimics Photosynthesis, Researchers Say ...more

U.S. scientists have developed what they say is the first integrated nanosystem capable of replicating the process of...

Biomimicry ~ 15 examples of technology based on nature.more

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Nature-Inspired Innovation: 9 Examples of Biomimicry in Action...more

...are nine facinating examples of biomimicry at work. Click through to see images of innovations and the natural...

Products inspired by naturemore

glass and roofing tiles, which are used in thousands of buildings in Europe. This is an example of biomimicry, an...

Innovative Nature: Baking Biomimicry Inmore

a strong passion for. Jake is a talent within a talented community that I am willing to support. Biomimicry.

InterfaceFLOR - closing the loop in the manufacturing processmore

little impact on the environment as possible. The tiles' random designs were invented by InterfaceFLOR and inspired by...

Biomimicry Offers Sustainable Solutions Inspired By Naturemore

Biomimicry is design inspired by nature. With 7 billion humans on Earth today -- and demand for natural resources...

Biomimicry: Nature-Inspired Designsmore

the genius of the natural world and learning something from it,' says Janine Benyus, who coined the term biomimicry in...

Synthetic Life Field Needs More Oversight, U.S. Commission Says - Bloo...more

Biofuels, vaccines and products under development in the emerging field of synthetic biology should receive coordinated...

Airbus Funding Development of Waggling Wings For Greener Air Travelmore

COVENTRY, UK -- Playing with a model airplane wing in a wind tunnel led researchers at the University of Warwick to a...

Jellyfish a model of efficiencymore

We did a field demonstration this summer out in Lancaster, and were able to show that using this bio-inspired design...

Newsletter « Business Lessons From Naturemore

Brilliant New Plan Will Allow Highway Trees to Produce Clean...more

Solar Botanic trees achieve this via their biomimicry concept, Energy Harvesting Trees (EHT). EHT's convert light, heat...

Nature inspires new products in "biomimic" studymore

economy,' Achim Steiner, head of the U.N. Environment Program, said on Tuesday in giving findings of a UNEP...

It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's ... a New Seagull-Like Robot Spy Drone...more

so astonishingly convincing in flight it really could pass for a genuine seagull from a distance--a feat of biomimicry...

Ogilvy Notes - "It's Nature's Way": Innovative Tech Design T...more

iPad Design Headaches (2 Tablets, Call in the Morning) Josh Clark

Bat to the future: Biomimicry's best designs from the animal kingdommore

Scientists increasingly turning to nature to improve the efficiency of engineering Bats and bees are inspiring advances...

From pomegranates to Plastiki: How biomimicry helped build the boatmore

Much of design of Plastiki is inspired by nature and biomimicry Pawlyn is advocate of cradle-to-cradle design that...

Sweat Proof Fabrics Biomimic Reponse Of Pine Cone To Humiditymore

...that biomimic the response of the pine cone to humidity.  Read why the pine cone may be the biomimetic hero of the...

Innovation by Observationmore

One of IDEO’s ten faces of innovation is the anthropologist: the one who observes human behaviors and actions to...

Biomimicry Explained with Janine Benyusmore

Janine Benyus, author of the book “Biomimicry”, speaks extensively about the topic in this great presentation.

Treehouses Move Up a Notch in the Worldmore

price tag for a wooden treehouse. Interior of the 'Djuren' treehouse "From my point of view, it is...

Dynamic architecture (concept)more

A beautiful example of biomimicry and certainly a flight of fancy, the plan proposes a futuristic building system based...

SolidThinking Launches Worldwide Product Design Competition For Colleg...more

their minds. solidThinking Inspired allows users to apply morphogenesis��� form-generation technology ��� which draws...

Genesis, The Biomimetic Implant System(TM), Receives Regulatory Cleara...more

of Genesis, The Biomimetic Implant System. The Genesis System represents a major advance in implant dentistry through...

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