The biomimicry meme continues to spread through mainstream media:
An airplane systems engineer, a shower designer and a biologist walk into a Costa Rican rain forest.
“This is the neatest thing I’ve found this week,†says the airplane engineer, from Boeing, pointing to a cluster of daddy-longleg spiders gently oscillating on the trunk of a banana tree. “There must be some unique muscular elastic element in their legs sensing vibration and amplitude. There could be really important opportunities here for a low-energy sensor or mechanical actuator system.†Continued over at Popular Mechanics…