BioInspired! So What? Now What!

My hosting provider suffered a major meltdown on October 8th starting around 15:00 EDT due to a Distributed Denial of Service attack against the servers that handle name resolution.  Although the BID Community, BioDreamMachine, Biomimicry Info and Zygote Quarterly websites were up, the locations of the websites could not be resolved, effectively cutting off traffic.  Emails sent to the domains associated with these sites would also fail, as well as any emails sent from these domains.  Service was restored around 21:45 EDT.  I got a flurry of queued emails late last night but please re-send any urgent requests if I do not respond sometime today.  Unfortunately the Internet is no longer a 'warm and fuzzy' place.

Prof. Carlos Montana Hoyos (University of Canberra) has a student looking for our help in the relationship of biophilia and furniture design:

Please support our PhD student Ms. Nurul Ayn Ahmad Sayuti, by answering her questionnaire in the link below.  It should not take more than 20 minutes to answer the questionnaire, and your support will be very valuable for her study.

Research Title: A Study of Emotion, Influences and Perceptions of Furniture Design with Living Organisms in Relation to Biophilic Design.  http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1714892/A-Study-of-Emotion-Influences-and-Perceptions-of-Furniture-Design-with-Living-Organisms-in-Relation-to-Biophilic-Design

Upcoming Events:

• Bio-Inspired Ideas for Sustainable Energy  Tue, 2014/10/07 - Thu, 2014/10/09
• 2nd International Conference on Bioinspired and Biobased Chemistry & Materials  Wed, 2014/10/15 - Fri, 2014/10/17
• Disruptive Innovation Festival  Mon, 2014/10/20 - Fri, 2014/11/14
• Nature Inspired Design: Circular Product Design Symposium  Thu, 2014/11/06
• 2nd 2014 International Conference on Robotics, Biomimetics, Intelligent Computational Systems  Tue, 2014/11/11 - Thu, 2014/11/13

Recent Updates:

• Canadian Approach to ISO/TC 266  (Forum, preparation for October 20-22/2014 ISO/TC 266 meeting)

Biomimicry News: (from BioDreamMachine 'blog roll')

• Bioinspired materials enable new health-care options
• Shorebird's beak inspires research on water collection
• Nature's designs inspire research into new light-based technologies
• Artificial 'beaks' that collect water from fog: A drought solution?
• 'Squid skin' metamaterials project yields vivid color display