Examples in which biomimetics that incorporate natural beauty beauty into industrial design that has been improved over 3.8 billion years has been applied to PC

By imitating the structure of the living organisms that have reached through long evolutionary processes, the technique to develop products with high functionality is "Biomimetic (biomimetic)It is called in the field of industrial design and development of advanced technology. Lenovo, a computer-based manufacture, introduces the biomedicine efforts in product creation "Surrounded by Genius: Nature's Take on Engineering"Is released to the public.

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There are many things to learn in the wonderfulness of nature.


Shark's skin has antibacterial effect.


Lotus leaves have self-cleaning effect ......


The peacock feather has a structural color that develops color even without pigment ......


Geckos can also stick to glass surfaces.


Maria Au Farrel, who studies biomimetics, firstly took a look at the beauty of nature.


And next to beauty, it seems to be fascinated by various functionalities of nature.


"It is my job to apply an excellent design called" nature "that has changed over 3.8 billion years, to industrial design," Oh Farrell says.


"It's in" iterative work "that an engineer's job is to make, investigate, make and make an investigation," said Kevin Beck, who works at Lenovo.


Products will be improved by repetitive work.


"This nature has accumulated over 3.8 billion years in this iterative work."


"By learning from the design of nature, there are times when you can skip a process of improvement greatly and you can short cut it.This is a big role of biomimetics, learning from nature's design and solving technical problems," Beck I will talk.


"Let me introduce one example where biomimetics was utilized in Lenovo's product development"


One technician was developing a new display integrated PC. In the new 2in 1 PC, it was also required to be quiet as well as thin.


The developer went to the aquarium with his son on holiday.


So, when I was watching the dolphin show, I noticed that I could scarcely splash the dolphins jumping and leaving the water and entering the water.


And I thought that the cause was in the shape of dolphin's body.


Developers who thought that dolphin body shape with low resistance would be useful for the development of fans that they are working on is based on the shape of dolphin's body ......


I succeeded in designing a fan with low resistance and low wind noise.


"There are many other Lenovo products that make use of biomimetics."


The stand that rotates smoothly ......


I refer to the stem of the run.


Quiet fan of thin notebook PC ......


It was made with reference to the feathers of owls.


Also, the waste heat slit of PC ......


It imitates the structure of a honeycomb.


Although human beings are members of the natural world, they are "existence that has broken up with nature" in that it artificially created various things. However, in the natural world, it has become possible for humans who are "young" species to become able to solve technical problems by learning from natural creatures, "seniors" who have lived long ago, as a natural regression phenomenon of humans It might be something to please.