Monthly Archives: August 2010
out of the invisible new life form is born
invisible kingdom
Kevin Kelly, senior maverick at Wired, presented a new definition of technology: ‘anything useful invented by a mind’ – whether it be a hammer or the rule of law. So technology is more than gadgets; it’s part of a great …
invisible materials
Nanomaterials is a field that studies materials with morphological features on the nanoscale, and especially those that have special properties stemming from their nanoscale dimensions. Nanoscale is usually defined as smaller than a one tenth of a micrometer in at …
invisible designer
Biomimicry /Greek: bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate/ as presented by Janine Benyus, the champion of biomimicry, is a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies, e.g., a solar cell inspired by …