7 amazing examples of biomimicry
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Copying Mother Nature
Biomimicry looks to nature and natural systems for inspiration. After millions of years of tinkering, Mother Nature has worked out some effective processes. In nature, there is no such thing as waste — anything left over from one animal or plant is food for another species. Inefficiency doesn't last long in nature, and human engineers and designers often look there for solutions to modern problems. Here are seven striking examples of biomimicry. (Text: Shea Gunther)
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Rummy is right is mimicking biology.
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BIomimicry is the wave of the future. Nature's design have the benefit of millions of years of real life testing unlike most man made products that are run through a few years of tests and R & D and then hoisted upon the public. I for one see biomimiry and bioprospecting as just the leading edge of many more interesting frontiers that could open up all kinds of innovation and new possibilities for not just the human race, but of every living thing and organism. I'm a 20+ year lawyer.... More
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Rudementry!!!!!!!!!!
Biomimmicry is where the future of science and medicine intersect. Thanks for supporting this in the article.
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i think biomimicary is bad!!!!!!!!!!
Biomimicry is like mimicing life and life exsperiences.
That is just my opinion. (Don't Comment anything that will make me mad) thank you!!!!!!!!
Biomimicry is mimicry of features of another organism or thing by a plant or animal in nature. It's not man copying design in nature and applying it to a solution in our world.
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'Biomimicry' is humans mimicking nature (as practiced by designers and inventors), 'biological mimicry' is one species mimicking some othe species 9as studies by biologists). Two different things!
Biomimicry needs more awareness , needs to be introduced in school syllabus , needs to be promoted at every science promotion material.
If Bio-mimicry were "features of another organism or thing by a plant or animal in nature", it would simple be Biology. To say that Bio-Mimicry mimics biology is circular and redundant. The term means one of two things; 1) A design element of a system derived from something occurring in a natural or organic system (for example, the convolution of wind turbine blades adapted from whale fins for optimal flow). 2) In the book and doctrine of Natural Capitalism , Bio-Mimicry takes on the additional.... More
Biomimicry is mimicry of features of another organism or thing by a plant or animal in nature. It's not man copying design in nature and applying it to a solution in our world.
Biomimicry is, in fact, the human design of solutions to issues that serve our needs based on structures and functions found in the natural world.
See the following resources:
http://www.biomimicryguild.com/
http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/
I'm a little behind the curve when it comes to biomimicry as I only heard of this design concept after watching Ms. Benyus' TED Talk a few months ago. I am in the camp that the examples in this article, by way of innovation, rapid prototype, development, and implementation, do indeed show how human designs can benefit from a natural blueprint.
An important aspect that was touched on in one of the comments, was the "closed loop" aspect of
I think perhaps you're thinking of molecular mimicry: a term used to describe how pathogenic organisms will often copy structural features of other organisms in order to camouflage themselves in a host. Or perhaps in a more broad sense: the structural similarities between toxins and other proteins.
This term "biomimicry" is new to me. According to Wikipedia (which is of course infallible *tongue in cheek*), was essentially coined by this text.
You are wrong. Look it up.
This is technically "biomimicry", an organism (humans) mimicking something else in nature, mimicking biology.
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