An example of inspirational biomimicry could be the observation that certain animals like tortoises and sharks live much longer than other vertebrate animals, which may reveal clues to an age ...

Velcro is a widely known example of biomimicry. You may have worn shoes with velcro straps as a youngster and you can certainly look forward to wearing the same kind of shoes in retirement.

Biomimicry, as it’s called ... so we thought it’d be fun to round up a few of the most noteworthy examples. Here are eight of the most astounding technological applications inspired by ...

Though biomimicry has inspired human innovations for decades—one of the most often-cited examples is Velcro, which the Swiss engineer Georges de Mestral patented in 1955 after studying how burs ...

What are some of the best examples of biomimicry? I like looking at what organisms do that’s completely different from the way we do the same thing. For instance, take a peacock feather.

The field, known as biomimicry, brings together biologists, engineers, and designers in an attempt to solve some of the world's thorniest manufacturing challenges. Inspiring examples of nature at ...

To launch the project, for example, the designers, which also included core team members David Stychno, Scott Mackie and Greg Burkett, along with Jennifer Wood from the Biomimicry Guild ...

The book, Biomimicry in Architecture, not only gives examples of where biomimicry has been used, but also answers some of the issues that naysayers raise. These include how you could tackle water ...

There are hundreds of biomimetic examples–like the bullet train that borrows the aerodynamic form of a kingfisher’s beak; or non-toxic adhesives inspired by blue mussels. Now biomimicry is ...

Biomimicry describes not so much the use of naturally occurring systems to solve our problems, for example the use of bacteria to clean waste-water in water-treatment technologies, but rather the ...