Janine Benyus of the Biomimicry Institute describes how seashells form layers of mineral and polymer from seawater.

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Using nature as an inspiration for technology, known as biomimicry, is increasingly widespread.

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Biomimicry is a new way of talking about how we can learn from nature to solve our modern problems.

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Our products are better than they ever have been, because of biomimicry.

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Studio9732 will also push beyond image and offer new technological visions such as biomimicry, a new science that looks to nature and its processes, models, etc to solve human problems.

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The flourishing field of biomimicry suggests the answer.

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There are many areas of overlap between biomimicry and "cradle-to-cradle" particularly in the way that ecosystems present a great model of closed loop systems in which any waste from one organism becomes the nutrient for something else.

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And for me biomimicry is exactly that.

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David was very complimentary about my talk on biomimicry, which was about looking to nature as a source of inspiration for new technological solutions, so we met up after the conference and started to develop design ideas for his boat.

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Material science benefits greatly from biomimicry.

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Innovation is rich with biomimicry.

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