Bionic Innovation

An air-jelly-fish or a mechanic bird. The future is here, just watch it unfold #biomimicry

On the recent TED Global 2011 – The Stuff of Life (Edinburgh, Scotland. July 11-15, 2011), it was presented the artificial bird by Markus Fisher, and digging a bit more into it, there is an enormous quantity of projects carried out by ‘Festo’ that mimick life and develop technology with inspiration from nature.

Festo is a leading world-wide supplier of automation technology and the performance leader in industrial training and education programs. Through the Bionic Learning Network, they have been researching and developing projects with biomimicry principles since 2006, and you can see them all on their website.

AutoCAD WS is available! iPhone and iPad included.

AutoCAD WS is fully available now on www.autocadws.com and they are also releasing compatible applications to be installed on iPhone and iPad  to synchronise all information across devices in what was called before Project Butterfly. With this application you can share blueprints, plans,

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"Straddling" bus. New chinese invention to improve traffic congestion

 

A new type of bus has been presented to apparently solve the traffic problems found in Beijing, China. "The Straddling bus", "The 3D fast bus", or "The Stereo Bus", as they call it, consists of an elevated carriage which moves above cars driving underneath, and guided by two rails on its sides. The bus stops would be

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Real to Virtual. 3D Scanner. Easy and Free Technology

 

We have spent endless times trying to make real all our digital ambitions, designs, projects,... well this is basically the opposite! I have discovered a new way of modelling 3D objects much easier than spending hours playing trial and error with complicated applications. Here is David Laser Scanner. It´s a method of virtualising real life objects into 3D files, that we can later use in our projects, designs or just for helping our creative minds concentrate on better things than create a 3D pet. To make it work you just need a line-laser, a webcam, and a computer with the "David-LaserScanner" application installed.

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Wireless Electricity: Witricity

 

Another hit in technology history I just came across on the same day. Witricity is a revolutionary discovery from a group of MIT Physicists who were able to transfer power over distance, basically they were able to light up a normal bulb over a 2 m. distance gap.

Witricity is the website of the company, which has already made a huge progress and has the biggest companies around the world building a partnership to agree a common standard for it.

Interactive Online Video - The future of videos online

 

I just discovered the new invention from a cool Spanish company creating a revolution in the new techonlogies sector. This company is Madpixel, and what they have just launched is the Interactive Online Video, basically a video you can pause at any moment and search interactively through its content. You can click on information about the people that appear in the video, or clothes, objects,... endless joy.

You can see the work they have done for the Principe de Asturias Foundation here in Spanish and also a Demo of a Sex & The City Episode here. And the company website: www.madpixel.es

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