The Eastgate Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe, is a shining example of biomimicry. This naturally cooled green building, designed by architect Mick Pearce, models its ventilation system on the cooling system used by African termites in their giant mounds.
Surveillance cameras flap their wings in the sky just like birds and bats. Tiny little hairs on gecko feet help a robot climb a smooth vertical surface. The impact-resistant surface of human teeth inspires light and durable aerospace materials. Just like designs inspired by the sea, insect-mimicking inventions and buildings that look like natural terrain, […]
Janine Benyus is a life sciences writer and author of six books, including her latest -- Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. In Biomimicry, she names an emerging science that seeks sustainable solutions by mimicking nature's designs and processes (e.g., solar cells that mimic leaves, agriculture that looks like a prairie, business that runs like a redwood forest). More Pop!Tech art by Peter Durand of Alphachimp Studio Inc. at: www.alphachimp.com/poptech-art/
A visual representation of the taxonomy of functions used to organize strategy information on AskNature.
Biomimetic Design for Landscape Architecture
Each picture on these playing cards represents an animal or natural element humans look to to solve human problems. They reinforce what the children have just learned in the biomimicry mini-lessons. They can be used to play memory games, Go Fish or any other game your children come up with.
A whale’s skin is easily glommed up with barnacles, algae, bacteria and other sea creatures, but sharks stay squeaky-clean. Although these parasites can pile onto a shark’s rippled skin too, they c…
The world’s first biomimicry portal offers a library of design and engineering solutions from nature.
Biomimicry in Organizational System Design shared by Evonne Inkenzo Heyning
We can turn to nature to study how to create better buildings, airplanes, glues, insulation, and more. Biomimicry improves our lives by mimicking the natural world.
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Nature has come up wih some pretty amazing designs. These examples of biomimicry in action cover robotics, architecture, transportation and more.
The Eastgate Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe, is a shining example of biomimicry. This naturally cooled green building, designed by architect Mick Pearce, models its ventilation system on the cooling system used by African termites in their giant mounds.
utilizing the inherent properties of a pine cone, chen was able to create a water-reacting laminate that can detect humidity levels, and change its shape automatically without mechanical structures or electronic elements.
. A summer camping is comfortable to escape the confinement rules. The essential thing is the tent, but above all a very functional: easy to assemble, hydrophobic and assured. These examples illust…
The Biomimicry Institute recently teamed up with Autodesk to launch AskNature.org, an incredible source of information for the growing community of professionals researching and applying the principles of biomimicry. The solutions that animals and nature have
Surveillance cameras flap their wings in the sky just like birds and bats. Tiny little hairs on gecko feet help a robot climb a smooth vertical surface. The impact-resistant surface of human teeth inspires light and durable aerospace materials. Just like designs inspired by the sea, insect-mimicking inventions and buildings that look like natural terrain, […]
Inspiration never runs out when it comes to Nature — the best designer there is. In the “Biomimicry” competition, Eleven Magazine challenged architects and designers worldwide to send their ...
In a new study published in February 2020 in the journal Science Advances, researchers report the development of a nanoscale device that acts like the brain's visual cortex to directly see things in its path. The scientists created a new superstructure through the use of two nanomaterials in tandem that could help to make a machine that uses AI to simulate a human mind's function.
Learning from wasp nests, lobster shells, and butterfly wings.
The “Anti-Shark” Wetsuit is the world’s first design that renders divers and surfers invisible to sharks!
Surveillance cameras flap their wings in the sky just like birds and bats. Tiny little hairs on gecko feet help a robot climb a smooth vertical surface. The impact-resistant surface of human teeth inspires light and durable aerospace materials. Just like designs inspired by the sea, insect-mimicking inventions and buildings that look like natural terrain, […]
In Artis, Amsterdam zoo, I took this photo with my Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 macro USM, indoor. This gecko was sticking against the glass, he uses the lines on his feet for this .. I used a monpod for this shot .. My fellow Artis-Fan-Flickrer A.J. Haverkamp sent me Flickr mail with a sign at that gecko's terrarium link. According to the sign this is the Madagascar giant day gecko Thanks A.J.!
Companies seeking breakthrough products tend to ignore the greatest invention machine in the universe: life’s more than three-billion-year history of evolution by natural selection.
Biomimicry encourages us to leverage the awesome might of nature, and represents a cutting edge approach towards developing sustainable solutions. Essentially, this means replicating nature’s…
