Biomimicry: Inspire by nature

A lot has been said in the video and probably you can find lots more examples on the Internet. Although it is a very young way of thinking it is a very logical way of thinking, nature has been around for a very long time. Nature has always been able to self regulate, so why can't we see how nature is doing it and apply it in our products.

The website that Janine Benyus was talking about was http://asknature.org/ , it is a very cool website if you have a design problem you can enter the function in the database and then you see how nature solves this problem

Dynamic Textures

Dynamic textures is a material developped by a student industrial design.
I stumbled on this material when we were searching for a solution for a project where we want to make sure that you can't put any warm food in the fridge or freezer.

The material gets little fangs when it contains something that is still hot, so we could make sure the jars don't fit anymore in the fridge or freezer.

This is a really smart material but for now it is still not production ready, I can see a lot of options for this product when it is perfectionized.

The project is focussed on trying to find an electrical appliance that we need to make more ecological.

Kite Gen: A nice vision on the future

Viewing we have a project going on concerning kites, I stumbled on this little movie and principle.
It is a new way of thinking green, it is an innovative project and let's hope kitegen can keep up the promise.