ZDNet looks at new research that mimics electric eel cells to produce energy: A team of U.S. engineers has found that it’s possible to build artificial cells replicating the electrical behavior of electric eel cells. In fact, these artificial cells deliver better performance than the real ones, called electrocytes, which can generate electric potentials of […]
Category Archives: biomimicry
What Can Architecture Learn From Nature?
The Blossoming of Biomimicry
A biomimicry update from a fellow Biomimicry Institute board member, and long-time cleantech commentator Joel Makower. Will biomimicry blossom, joining green chemistry among the burgeoning tools available to build the next generation of cleaner, greener products? It remains to be seen, of course, but biomimicry makes too much common sense to be dismissed as a […]
Picturing Biomimicry
Building the Bio-inspired City
Biomimicry in Popular Mechanics
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 […]
Inspried by Trout
What does a water-purification system have to do with a trout? Find out via an interesting post at greentechmedia: When it comes to water technology, nature appears poised to become a major player. Similar to the Watreco and Parc situation, a group of startups – Novozymes and Aquaporin – are facing off against an industrial […]
Biomimicry Seminar – September 24th, 2008
Animal Minds
Fascinating program from one of my favorite radio shows/podcasts: In Baltimore, Maryland, there’s an octopus that likes to play with toys. In Vienna, Austria, there’s a border collie with a vocabulary of 340 words – more than many toddlers. Southeast Asia is home to dozens of elephants who like to paint. In this hour of […]