Biomimicry fans on the horizon

Reachable · Post by **Reachable** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:55 pm

The link is to a business news article about biomimicry, a term which seems to mean a more dedicated approach to using natural structures as the inspiration for new technologies than conventional engineering research.

One of the companies designs fans based on the forms that turbulent water itself takes as it's moving (such as down a bathtub drain.) The article mentions that they're involved in designing PC fans and the company's website discusses it, but I didn't see any mention of already existent products.

In any case, the article is really interesting, discussing fans, cars, and display screens.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business ... index.htm?

theyangster · Post by **theyangster** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:37 pm

quite interesting stuff, hopefully in a couple of years we can go back to having some 40mm fans that that would surpass the efficiency and noise reduction of today's 120mm fans

jaganath · Post by **jaganath** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:59 am

that was a very interesting and thought-provoking article,thanks.