“If it has a basis in nature, it just makes sense.”™
I’m one of those people that “runs cold”… perhaps you know someone who has cold extremities. Especially in the winter, my hands and feet can be used as icy weapons against my warm blooded friends. So as lovely as wooden floor boards look and as trendy as polished concrete floors are, I just prefer the [...]
Green Echo™ is such an interesting wave to me, but at first glance, one could dismiss it as fancy art or science projects. Well, I came a cross a fine example of Green Echo™, that shows you specifically how nature has influenced the building of One Bryant Park. “Richard Cook of Cook+Fox Architects recently took [...]
Enterprising geeks turn their passion for robotics and bugs into successful and educational toy. HEXBUG is a fun example of how Green Echo™ doesn’t always have to be about high concept biomimicry science experiments. Like this crazy bullet proof skin idea. “Children can design and build habitats for their Nano bugs and register them online [...]
Here are two examples of bringing a bit of nature into your tech filled life. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of iPod, iPhone and iPad docking stations offering all kinds of features. I’ve seen all kinds of cool stuff, from huge sound systems, to flashing lights and all kinds of slick fashionable designs. But [...]
For those who haven’t ever stumbled across arborsmithing (or ‘tree shaping’), it’s essentially “the craft of cultivating and training perennial woody plants to grow into ornamental shapes and useful implements.” That means you shape trees naturally, over time, into things like chairs, ornaments and bridges
Several recent advancements in technology and design have come out of things based on nature, from glue based on how ivy hangs to bullet trains based on the precision of a bird.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if our machines and gadgets had the same ability to heal themselves that we do?
Research funded by Volkswagon may scratch the surface of such technologies.
Are you stressed? Anxious? Disconnected? Depressed? Do you really want to go sit on a couch in a dark office and talk about your problems? Whah whah….psychologists are beginning to recognize that some of this issues could be relieved by simply getting back to nature.
Sounds like something from some sci fi program doesn’t it? Its not all sci-fi hocus pocus though as scientists are looking to replicate the same regenerative process found in the Mexican salamander—in humans. Nothing like going to nature for natural solutions, as Reuters reports: The U.S. Department of Defense has given a $6.25 million research [...]
Green echo is particularly a favorite wave of ours, if not for its simplicity then always for its ingenuity. The products and life evidence we find in this wave are constantly those that imitate a natural design or truly incorporate real nature as the design itself.