Friday, October 03, 2014

Take advantage of millions of years of R & D

Need to make/design something? Ask Nature:
"AskNature is the world’s most comprehensive catalog of nature’s solutions to human design challenges. This curated online library features free information on more than 1,800 (and growing!) natural phenomena and hundreds of bio-inspired applications.
Think of AskNature as your home habitat. Whether you're a designer, architect, engineer, or chemist looking for life-friendly solutions to a design challenge or a biologist who wants to share what you know about an amazing organism, AskNature is where biology and design cross-pollinate, so bio-inspired breakthroughs can be born. "

http://www.asknature.org/

A nice basic intro video to biomimicry from 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVHtAjQoWmg

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