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Researchers are increasingly looking to nature for design inspiration in a wide range of mechanical devices. Doing so allows them to draw on the millions of years of evolution that have resulted in designs offering superior performance and efficiency. Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) is one field that has recognized the maneuverability and performance virtue of nature’s small flyers, with various attempts being made to mimic these designs and produce vehicles that outperform traditional fixed-wing or rotary-wing craft. We’ve seen the development of a tiny a ‘nano air vehicle’ inspired by the hummingbird, a UAV based on a Pterodactyl and a six-inch long robotic spy plane that, like this new design from North Carolina University, draws on the physical characteristics of a bat.

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The X12, by Chinese mobility company XSTO, is a complete re-think of the electric wheelchair. It features four independently-suspended wheels, each with their own electric motor, and a further ten motors that control the chair's disposition. It also features a unique tread system that allows the

The stick vacuums popularized by Dyson and others are convenient and lightweight. But by design they don't have large dust containers, so must frequently be emptied. Some users find the emptying act, where you open the bin over a garbage can, unpleasant as it typically releases a poof of dust

I first learned about ticket rails as a teenager working in restaurants. I consider them the perfect object: Functional, minimal, and elegant in their simplicity. If you don't know what they are, they're used to hold paper tickets in restaurants. All you do is slide the ticket up

Flying can be stressful, painful, or downright impossible for wheelchair users. Advocates argue that it doesn't have to be that way.

Real laboratory footage showing a pigeon solving Wolfgang Kohler's famous box-and-banana problem, which he studied with chimpanzees in the early 1900s. Dr. Robert Epstein and his colleagues used operant conditioning techniques to get pigeons to solve this problem "spontaneously" in the 1980s. A report of their research was published in the prestigious British journal Nature in 1984 ("Insight" in the pigeon, Nature, 1984, v. 308, pp. 61-62), accessible at http://DrEpstein.com/downloads/Epstein-Insight_in_the_Pigeon-Nature-1984.pdf. Depending on their previous experience, pigeons could solve this problem in a human-like fashion in as little as a minute. This pigeon has learned to push boxes and to climb, and it has been rewarded with grain for pecking at a small toy banana. In this situation, the banana is out of reach and the box is not beneath it. At first the pigeon looks confused, then it begins pushing the box - sighting the toy banana as it pushes - and then stops pushing when the box is beneath the banana, then climbs and pecks. This and related studies were summarized in Dr. Epstein's 1996 book, Cognition, Creativity, & Behavior. For information about Dr. Epstein's research on creativity--and his scientifically-validated techniques for boosting creativity in HUMANS, visit http://CreativityInternational.com.

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