Modeling echolocation in bats in darkness has led to a cane for the visually impaired. Research at the
University of Leeds, in the United Kingdom, led to the UltraCane, a product formerly manufactured, marketed and sold by Sound Foresight Ltd
Janine Benyus refers in her books to spiders that create web silk as strong as the Kevlar used in bulletproof vests. Engineers could use such a material—if it had a long enough rate of decay—for parachute lines,
suspension bridge cables, artificial ligaments for medicine, and many other purposes.[7]
Other research has proposed adhesive glue from mussels,
solar cells made like leaves, fabric that emulates shark skin, harvesting water from fog like a beetle, and more. Nature's 100 Best is a compilation of the top hundred different innovations of animals, plants, and other organisms that have been researched and studied by the
Biomimicry Institute.
Researchers, for example, studied the termite's ability to maintain virtu...
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