{"id":6207,"date":"2017-11-11T10:23:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T18:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=6207"},"modified":"2017-11-11T10:25:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T18:25:56","slug":"design-how-biomimicry-helps-make-faster-more-efficient-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/11\/design-how-biomimicry-helps-make-faster-more-efficient-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Design: How biomimicry helps make faster, more efficient products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Engineer and birdwatcher Eiji Nakatsu helped redesign Japan\u2019s bullet trains based on the aerodynamics of three very different species of birds. In this short piece, my man Roman Mars from the great <a href=\"https:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/\">99% Invisible<\/a>\u00a0talks about how mimicking natural designs (e.g. the leaves of the lotus) helps create <a href=\"https:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/article\/biomimicry-designers-learning-natural-world\/\">more functional, less wasteful products<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iMtXqTmfta0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/NewImage-11.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"263\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iMtXqTmfta0\">YouTube<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/17\/11\/biomimicry-turning-birds-into-bullet-trains\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineer and birdwatcher Eiji Nakatsu helped redesign Japan\u2019s bullet trains based on the aerodynamics of three very different species of birds. In this short piece, my man Roman Mars from the great 99% Invisible\u00a0talks about how mimicking natural designs (e.g. the leaves of the lotus) helps create more functional, less wasteful products: [YouTube] [Via]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6209,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions\/6209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}