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Nature's 100 Best Initiative Publishes Preliminary Findings On How to Green
May 30, 2008, 3:57pm
Commercially-promising advances inventions, innovations and ideas inspired by the natural world and its close to 4-billion year-old history of 'research and development' are at the centre of a new collaborative initiative called Natures 100 Best unveiled at the Ninth Conference of Parties to Convention on Biological Diversity, 19-30 May. The projects and products presented are from an original list over 2,000.
A super-small pacemaker modeled on the wiring of the humpback whale�s heart and pigment-free color coatings from the light-splitting structures of a peacock's feather are among a range of extraordinary new eco-breakthroughs emerging from mimicking nature.
The initiative is the brainchild of the Biomimicry Guild and the Zero Emission Research and Initiatives (ZERI) in partnership with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The Nature's 100 Best List, a mixture of innovations at various stages of commercialization from the drawing board to imminent arrival in the marketplace, is set to be completed by October 2008 in time for the IUCN Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The Nature's 100 Best book will be published in May 2009.
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Design and the Elastic Mind February 24–May 12, 2008
Art Museum as Research Lab
A new exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art presents fresh talent in data visualization and other design disciplines that could have far-reaching business applications
A new exhibition at MoMA organized by Antonelli, which opened to the public on Feb. 24 and is on view through May 12, illustrates her point—in a spectacular and often provocative way.
The show, "Design and the Elastic Mind," features 200 projects by a host of international designers and firms, and gives a nod to "hot" technologies and new economic opportunities and consumer products. Innovative processes represented in the exhibition including nanotechnology, design for new markets in developing nations, and "three-dimensional printing" of physical objects directly from computer files.
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Mefeedia: Discover the Video WebTM
Mefeedia is a service that helps you “Discover the Video WebTM“. Mefeedia aggregates web shows, video blogs, and video feeds from over 15,000 video websites and video sharing sites – making it simple, easy, and fast to find and enjoy what you want to watch. On Mefeedia.com, you can then create a “Personal Media Channel” that keeps track of your favorite video shows, recommends new shows based on your interests and your friends interests, and updates automatically when there is a new episode. You can then watch those videos on Mefeedia, on your mobile device, or wherever you want.
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2007 Young Innovators Under 35
Since 1999, the editors of Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research we find most exciting; today that collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. Their work--spanning medicine, computing, communications, electronics, nanotechnology, and more--is changing our world.
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