Posts Tagged ‘biomimetic’

Reben

Developed by Japan-based Suzuran Corporation, Reben is an environmentally remediating paint made from 100 percent natural ingredients. Created as a response to sick-building syndrome and poor indoor-air quality, Reben emits no harmful volatile organic compounds and actually cleans the air. The environmentally...

November 4th, 2007 | coatings, feature | Read More

Hanabi

Like the Lotus flower, which opens its petals in the presence of the sun and closes them in its absence, Hanabi opens its lamp-shade “petals” when its bulb is turned on and closes them after it has been shut off. Representing an innovative use of shape-memory alloy, the heat of the bulb makes...

October 14th, 2007 | metals | Read More

Superabsorber

In the United States there are 46,837 miles of highways with miles of sound barrier walls being erected daily to mitigate the negative impacts of highway systems on urban neighborhoods. At the same time, these transportation systems alone produce 1.4 billion tons of airborne pollution annually. With...

March 8th, 2007 | concrete, feature | Read More

Wind Sculptures

Ned Kahn is an accomplished North California sculptor who deploys materials in order to celebrate and amplify natural forces. His large-scale wind installations, which have names like Wind Portal, Technorama Facade, and Fragmented Sea, utilize vast arrays panels made of aluminum, steel, and other materials...

November 20th, 2006 | feature, metals | Read More

Super Cilia Skin

Super Cilia Skin is a tactile and visual system inspired by the beauty of grass blowing in the wind. It consists of an array of computer-controlled actuators (cilia) that are anchored to an elastic membrane. These actuators represent information by changing their physical orientation. The current prototype...

October 27th, 2006 | feature, interactive | Read More

Les Tuiles

Les Tuiles is a system of textile bricks designed by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec for Kvadrat. Les Tuiles was conceived as a “immersive quilt” that erodes the fixed character of common spatial delineators like walls, doors, and passageways. The soft textile bricks form a continuous surface that may...

April 6th, 2006 | textile | Read More

Plantic

Cost competitive biomaterials are in demand by industry as they are usually sourced from renewable resources. Plantic is a new and developing type of biomaterial based on starch. The first commercial application of Plantic technology is in packaging and display trays. Plantic trays look, feel and function...

March 23rd, 2006 | plastic | Read More

Autoflex MARAG

Autotype, one of the world’s leading developers and manufacturers of film and chemical products, has launched a revolutionary new anti-reflective, anti-glare film that has been inspired from detailed research into the eye structure of night flying moths. Called Autoflex MARAG (MothEye Anti-Reflective,...

March 3rd, 2006 | feature, plastic | Read More

Activ

Pilkington’s Activ glass uses the power of the sun to clean itself. Activ is manufactured with the same advanced pyrolytic technology used to produce glass panels for electronic and photovoltaic solar-cell applications. Activ loosens dirt, gradually breaking down organic residue with a special PhotoActiv...

February 3rd, 2006 | glass | Read More