Intellectual Property
Aug. 28, 2013
Float like a butterfly, weave like a spider
Nature has much to teach us about product design, and the design of new products inspired by nature has opened up the field of biomimicry. But if you can't patent nature, can you still be inspired by it? By Judy M. Mohr
Humans have designed technologies to land on the moon, to split atoms, and to send information as light pulses. But we still can't make a ceramic as strong as an abalone shell, weave fibers as strong as spider silk, or pattern a surface that inhibits bacterial growth as effectively as shark skin. Nature has much to teach us about product design, and the design of new products inspired by nature has opened up the field of biomimicry.
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