Archimorph Online Portal
Archimorph is an amazing website related to everything we are interested about. You can lost in the extensive archive they’ve collected. Definitely check them out, some stuff gets a little theoretical but always relevant.
SolidThinking Morphogenic Biomimetic Software
Solid Thinking is an amazing software that takes your engineered solids and models (in various formats) and optimizes them the same way as if nature had built it (with material only responding to anchors and direct force. You need to …
Actar's Verb – Natures Edition
An awesome book has come to our attention by Actar Publishing entitled Natures. It is part of the elegantly crafted Verb series of “Boogazines” (half book, half magazine, clever eh?). Take a look and see what’s inside, great addition to …
Boston International Bionic Engineering Conference of 2011
Boston will be hosting a very exciting conference entitled the International Bionic Engineering Conference this coming September. For all those interested please visit the website. The keynote is none other than Dr. Julian Vincent which many of you might know …
Michael Pawlyn of Exploration on Biomimicry Applied to Architecture
[ted id=1072] Michael Pawlyn, the director at Exploration Architecture recently informed us of his TED speech on biomimicry applied to architecture. Great video, a must watch. We posted about the Eden Project he was involved with many months ago, a …
Intel and Carnegie Mellon's Claytronics: Self Organizing "Electronic Clay"
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJEMfAg5l2w&w=500&h=311] Researcher’s from Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Corporation have been working on a project called Claytronics. The idea is to have hundreds of thousands of nano processors form together to create new solid objects in any shape or size. …
Vlad Tenu's Minimal Complexity: Tex-Fab Competition Winner
Minimal complexity by Vlad Tenu is an award-winning project from the TEX -FAB competition. The self organizing proposal was superior on multiple counts. Aside from being technically stunning, drop-dead gorgeous, and meticulously detailed, the project embodies the ideas of emergence, …