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Mother Nature's Technology Transfers

Posted October 15, 2007 8:19 AM

Why not take tried-and-true designs from Mother Nature and apply them to manmade products? This rhetorical question continues to be an intrinsic success story in a myriad of technical breakthroughs across many industrial sectors for years. Recent examples include:

· Mother Nature Perfects Pump Designs

· Mussels + Geckos = Wet-Dry Adhesive

· Mother Nature's Seagoing Sonar

· Hook and Loop Fasteners

Although Mother Nature holds no patents, inventors adapting her designs can. What other examples of "Mother Nature" technology do you know of?

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10/15/2007 4:10 PM

What about aerodynamics? Bird wings to most people.
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10/15/2007 4:12 PM

What about spiders and their ability to abseil?

Or their webs for that matter.

Or their silk.
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10/15/2007 4:13 PM

What about those fishermen that use light to lure the fish to their nets. There are ugly things deep down that do that with chemical light.
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10/15/2007 4:15 PM

What about glue?

There are loads of animals that use glue in their attempts to catch a meal. I know we don't eat what we glue but still the principle is the same.
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10/15/2007 4:17 PM

Unless I am doing this all wrong I think it is too easy....sorry

What about moths using pheromones to find a mate? We make perfume don't we?
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11/12/2007 3:10 PM

So what are we doing from very existance of ourselves , mother nature holds patent that is hard to brake but easy to copy , we are one of them the most amazing and unique creation by mother nature , that nature itself might be kicking off.......
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