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Anouk’s New Creation: Intel Edison Based Spider Dress 2.0

Hep Svadja

Light cutter, fashion trend hunter, urbex artist, and space enthusiast.

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December 19th, 2014September 1st, 2015 12

Inspired by the territorial displays of arachnids, the Spider Dress 2.0 by designer and electronic wearables artist Anouk Wipprecht is a mechatronic dress with an Intel Edison chip that uses biosignals and learned threat detection to defend the wearer’s personal space. Mechanical arms extend and retract as a response to external stimuli, making it a […]

Four Student-Designed, Nature-Inspired Transportation Solutions

By Sherry Ritter

Sherry Ritter

Sherry Ritter is a biologist, writer, and educator living in Montana. Before getting involved with biomimicry, she was a wildlife ecologist with state wildlife agencies in Wyoming and Idaho, and worked for the U.S. Forest Service. Biomimicry fits her life-long interest in organisms’ adaptations to survive.

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102 university teams from around entered the Biomimicry Student Design Challenge.