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Biomimicry: Janine Benyus and the Biomimicry Institute and Guild**
 * CCT333 Tutorial 8

Janine Benyus heads both the research nonprofit Biomimicry Institute and the for-profit innovation consultancy, the Biomimicry Guild, and her mission is to show engineers and designers how to translate those ideas into a corporate, commercial context. She is the author of 'Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature', published in 1997, which discusses how to re-design our interaction with nature by showing deep respect for the natural world as a mentor for our design strategies.

Look over examples of her biomimetic principles applied to products in the slideshow located at [] and write a short, one paragraph synopsis for each of your four favourite product designs. (4 paragraphs)

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This is a very helpful tool that assist people who are blind. This tool has the sensor and will make sound wave which can prevent collisions. Therefore, people who have vision problem are no longer need to be so afraid when walking.=====

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This technic is to reduce the noise making from the train. The designer is inspired by the quietest birds, owls. It also reduces the sonic boom that occurs when the train passes from a tunnel back into the open air. And the last but the least is it can reduce noise pollution for both residents and animals.=====



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This non toxic glue is design for wood products like furniture and various flooring surface. I like this one because that way, people do not have to breath all the toxin and chemical in when they doing construction. it's environmental friendly product to use.=====



The idea of this is to use less amount of material, so the artist, Joris Laarman designed the furniture by using bones. The bone are very strong and able to hold a lot of weight.
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Write three paragraphs defining how, according to Janine Benyus, "the simple, elegant mechanics developed by nature often make sense in a human context, too".

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Benyus is trying to show that all the mechanics developed by nature are relates to human context because human are part of the planet. Humans have been existed for long period of time just like anything else in the world. Yet, it will be great ideas if people can designed things based on natural developments. Everything that exists has certain connection with us and they are there for reasons! =====

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