By O Me. My Cree!

Biomimicry and sustainable art. Freaking cool stuff!! But also freaking hard to research, at least for me. Maybe my research tools fail me though.
So I stumbled upon this company called Redwood, and they aren't exactly the most exciting company and they sure don't make Pokemon games but they are making some pretty innovative stuff. They're company revolves around lighting. Instead of using the standard AC lights that is in pretty much every household, they resort to using energy efficient LED lighting. Doesn't sound that innovative does it? Well it goes a bit farther. Since LED lights focus around temperature they can make really great sensors. In this they can sense when people are in the rooms and they can turn on and off when they are there and they can also read how much external light is coming into the room and maybe turn down the amount of lighting in the room. Somewhat neat. Obviously this would be an extreme energy reducer and that's the strong appeal. If we could see a prototype of what these lights look like. I think that this great idea needs to have aesthetic design that goes with the LED lighting, but unfortunately I don't have any type of example. Sad day!

Here's another simple idea that could definitely make a difference in a problem of the air travel gas consumption. So you know that birds travel in a V-shape pattern and apparently that boosts their distance to fly by 70%. Some smart people from Stanford believe that if we did the same thing with our airplanes that it would decrease fuel consumption. Woo hoo! Hey that doesn't even require much except careful flying patterns. This is a great design idea because of the fact that it doesn't require extra building or added materials. In fact it almost doesn't fit into design because it's just smarter travel rather than some sort of remade product. However I suppose it is a remade idea.

Ok Ok. So I haven't been totally excited about the last two. Although they did do some good things for society I felt like they weren't great aesthetically or they weren't that revolutionary. This next one takes a step up. PAX scientists have taken a long hard look at repeated design in nature.

The Fibonacci sequence. Seen in tails of the chameleons, the trunk of an elephant, and in the obvious shell, this design must be some sort of masterpiece of mother nature, something that she likes to flaunt. PAX scientists have begun to take after mother nature and started applying it to human made rotary devices like fans, mixers, propellers, turbines, pumps, etc. According to Biomimicry Institute, it can reduce energy usage 10-85% and noise up to 70%. That's AMAZING!! This actually does get me excited. Considering that this has been used in nature so much it makes it a great design efficiency wise. However, what gets me so excited is the actual design itself. It's a beautiful shape all around and it can be adapted and rearranged in so many ways that its one of the most fun shapes as well. This is truly a genius idea because not only does it satisfy one our biggest issues but it also feeds into our amazing need for aesthetics. My artistic wants are pumping and breaking apart the seams. Their are so many ways that this idea can be implemented into rotaries and it fits so perfectly. The beauty of this design is that every aspect of the design works with each other. It's useful and it looks good. O my favorite!!

http://greenagenda.info
http://www.mnn.com
http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/