Category Archives: biomimicry

Wow! In the tech industry we would call this “disruptive” technology. “…a new set of design tools, included in the newest release of ID CAD software SolidThinking. The technology, which ST is calling Morphogenesis, is a sort of semi-automated biomimicry toolbox…” Continued at http://www.core77.com/blog/

Harold Raveche, president of the Stevens Institute of Technology, offers an opinion piece suggesting a look at nature will provide answers as the US government works to overhaul the country’s financial system. The options are stark and clear: Do we want an inflexible and stifled state-controlled economy or a vibrant and responsive free-market system that […]

The Maharbiz Group at UC Berkeley has a long-term vision is to engineer devices and materials directly from living precursors – in other words biomimicry. First published a few years ago, the work has now found its way into NewScientist. Inspired by the transport of water in plants, we resently presented a synthetic, microfabricated ‘leaf’ […]

In a lecture broadcast on the UK’s BBC, the Prince of Wales issued a stark warning about impending environmental catastrophe, telling an audience: “If we fail the Earth, we fail humanity.” Giving the 33rd Richard Dimbleby lecture, The Prince set out his vision for tackling what he said were the pressing problems of the “environmental […]

There are two biomimicry workshops coming up soon. Check them out at: http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/education/training/

Today I was fortunate to attend a presentation by Janine Benyus at Google’s head office. Here is just one of dozens of new bio-inspired products she featured: Our VIVACE technology uses the extensively studied phenomenon of vortex induced vibrations to extract useful energy from ocean, river, tidal and other water currents. Continued at http://www.vortexhydroenergy.com/