The future is maybe not a place crowded with insensitive robots and machines… Nature and a bit of poetry can help us shaping a future with sustainable solutions. How can exploring, observing and imitating other living creatures and entities can inspire us ? What can biomimicry teach us ?
Darja Dubravcic is a molecular biology engineer from Zagreb University and she is holding a doctorate degree in “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Life Science” from the prestigious Centre for Research and Interdisciplinary based in Paris. In charge of the biomimicry department at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) she got a 120k€ grant from AXA for her studies and projets in the field of biomimicry.
Eink, E-paper, Think Ink – Collin shares six segments pondering the unusual low-power display technology that somehow still seems a bit sci-fi – http://adafruit.com/thinkink
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