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A Little More Bio-inspiration

Posted on Mar 03, 2008 - 05:03 PM

Yesterday, I was in Hawaii and gave a keynote presentation to the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association. As part of my talk, I encouraged the group to seek inspiration from biology for next-generation breakthroughs. In this spirit, I’d like to bring to your attention this article about how the shipping industry is drawing inspiration from the petoral fin of the Bluegill sunfish to design a more efficient and manueverable propeller.

The moral of the story? Mother Nature has been designing things for billions of years and there is still much we can learn from her.

Looking for more bits of inspiration from the animal kingdom? Check out these past posts:

Follow the Ants
To Survive ... Change Diets
Swarm Intelligence Gets Even Smarter
Biomimickry at its Best

Jack Uldrich is a writer, futurist, public speaker and host of jumpthecurve.net. He is the author of seven books, including Jump the Curve and The Next Big Thing is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business. He is also a frequent speaker on future technology and future trends, nanotechnology, robotics, RFID, innovation, change management and executive leadership to a variety of businesses, industries and non-profit organizations and trade associations.

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