SERIES 2: DOING WHAT COMES NATURALLY

Natural selection is a three billion year old product design process that can’t be beaten. It’s not just Velcro… 'Biomimicry' is a way of profiting from nature by observing and adapting natural solutions into technical innovations. In this episode, we see how sharks, sponges and the brittle fish -- equipped all over its body with thousands of optically perfect lenses with which it sees -- are being studied for commercial potential.

LINKS

Exploration Architecture
http://www.exploration-architecture.com

Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives
http://www.zeri.org/

London School of Economics
http://www.lse.ac.uk/

Harvard University, School of Engineering
http://www.seas.harvard.edu/

Natural History Museum
http://www.nhm.ac.uk

Bonn University, Germany
http://www3.uni-bonn.de/

Teijin
http://www.teijin.co.jp/english/index.html

Qualcomm
http://www.mirasoldisplays.com/

Oxford Biomaterials
http://www.oxfordbiomaterials.com/

Biostability
http://www.biostability.com/

Sharklet Technologies
http://www.sharklet.com/

Pax Scientific
http://www.paxwater.com/index.html

Dyesol
http://www.dyesol.com/

Penn State University
http://www.psu.edu/