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Hijacker injector

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Polar Bear fur and Jacket4

Example: self cleaning5

Velcro resulted in 1948 from a Swiss engineer, George de Mestral, noticing how the hooks of the plant burrs stuck in the fur of his dog

Example: velcro

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velcro

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040512044455.htm

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Example: airplane wing design

Using a wind tunnel, researchers have found that the flipper of the humpback whale is a more efficient wing design than the current model used by the aeronautics industry on airplanes. Engineers are working to apply the aerodynamic findings to future airplane and automotive design

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Engineers at Airbus have used the rough skin of the shark as inspiration in developing a striated foil coating for the wings of aircraft, a design which has resulted in six percent less friction and improved fuel efficiency.

Example: Sharkskin

http://www.berlinews.de/archiv-2004/2212.shtml

Speedo® Fastskin® is the most technically advanced swimwear ever made. Unique fabric mimics a sharkskin with dermal denticles-tiny hydrofoils with V-shaped ridges that decrease drag and turbulence.

http://www.speedo.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=115&lc=el&cc=cy

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001429.html

Researchers are using shark skin as a model for creating new coatings that prevent adhesion of algae and barnacles to boats. The new coating is modeled after sharks' placoid scales.

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Use of resources: biological

GPS-Equipped Pigeons Enlisted as Pollution Bloggers

Pigeons carrying high-tech backpacks that contain pollution sensors, GPS units, and stripped-down cell phones have been enlisted to create accurate, detailed urban pollution maps. Now scientists are taking the concept of small, low-cost sensors all over the world for their air-pollution research.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/21368005.html

Japanese boffins create scuttling cyber spies Cybernetically enhanced bugs have become a reality meaning that humanity may have more to worry about than the threat of AI-style robots taking over the world. Japanese boffins at Tokyo University are developing a 'robo-roach' remote controlled insect that could be used to carry a miniature camera and microphone. It would not be to make very small documentaries or make its own cockroach karoake either; robo-roach could be used in any number of environments ranging from searching through rubble for disaster victims to acting as a tiny spy in espionage missions. Cockroaches make the ideal agent because they cannot be shot, poisoned or bribed and would be the only life form likely to survive a nuclear war.

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http://database.biomimicry.org/start.php

www.biomimicry.org

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“The significant problems that we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.”

Albert Einstein