The magical properties of coffee stains have already spurred on some researchers to develop a better coating for TV screens, and it looks like they've now inspired a few folks to create a new type of touchscreen as well.

ENGADGET: Coffee-like stains inspire new type of touchscreen

And for aviation engineer Oliver Caldara, it was the motion of birds in flight which inspired him to design a new, more efficient, type of paraglider.

CNN: Aviation industry learns from nature

This new type of synergistic interplay recently happened with engineers who designed robots inspired by research that Full had conducted on gecko feet.

CNN: Snails inspire design for state-of-the-art robots

That is not the type of thing you want to see, but a change at the top inspired analysts to raises estimates.

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