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 * LAB 8 - Biomimicry: Janine Benyus and the Biomimicry Institute and Guild**

This train is referred as being a bullet train and is one of the most fastest trains in the world, with a speed of 200 mph. The biomimicry in this design is focused on the quietness of an owls feathers and how the noise of the train can be reduced. The trains nose is also another element of biomimicry, since it it resembles the beak of a kingfisher. The beak of this bird allows the bird to dive into water and back into the air very smoothly with little resistance. This component is added to the train by reducing noise pollution when entering and leaving a tunnel.
 * Avian Elements:**

The UltraCane is a device included with a sonar technology that is designed for the visually impaired. This element of biomimicry in this design is concentrated on bats and the way they navigate in the dark without collisions. As the person is holding the cane and walking towards oncoming traffic, objects, street signs or other people, the cane will send a sound wave to the person holding it, letting them know there is something in their way.
 * Echolocation:**

The Skeleton key functions as bone furniture biomimicing actual bones. They are designed in a way that mimic the hollowness in a bone, leaving the structure hollow but fairly strong just like a bone. A computer software actually designed the Skeleton key chair by mimicing the process and direction of bone growth, leaving the furniture actually looking like it could be developed bones. In addition, the hollowness allows the object to be simultaneously strong.
 * The Skeleton Key:**

This anitbacterial film is designed for contact lenses or other products that are susceptible to the build up of bacteria. Therefore, the film is used in order to prevent infection and bacteria from building up on the surface of the contact lens. The biomimicry element in this case is connected to a type of seaweed that Biosignal (Australian company) has found that this specific seaweed has natural components that decrease and prevent the gathering of bacteria.
 * Keeping the Bugs Out:**


 * Write three paragraphs defining how, according to Janine Benyus, "the simple, elegant mechanics developed by nature often make sense in a human context, too".**

Biomimicing is relevant to companies and businesses for the focus will be strictly on sustainability. Biomimcry is a process that shows engineers and designers how certain elements of nature can be translated into a human context (corporations) and enhance sustainability. Benyes insists that studying nature and their ways of creating and sustaining should be considered when designing for the future. She claims that natural organisms do the things they do in a way that will allow their genetic material remain thousands of generations from now, hence keeping the future in mind.

Janine Benyus claims that it is critical for us and businesses to take the design principles of the natural world and learn from it. Natural mechanics are mimiced now in order to create sustainability. For instance there is the power shape, where the fins of the whale have bumps on them which increases efficiency by 32%. If this was added to the edges of airplane wings, it would decrease fossil fuels. Quenching thirst and the water problem can be solved by mimicing the beetle which pulls water out of fog or the pull bug that pulls water out of air.

The time degradation concept consists of mussels and focusing on their threads that hold it to the rock for a span of two years. This can be mimiced into the human context by using the concept for packaging such as boxes, plastic, etc that can dissolve at a certain time to create sustainability and decrease pollution. There is a big problem with the refrigeration of vaccines gets broken and patients cannot get their vaccines, dry out vaccines to case them in the same sugar capsules as the tartergrade has them within itself, allowing the vaccines to survive without water and refrigeration.