Popular Mechanics

The biomimicry meme continues to spread through mainstream media:

An airplane systems engineer, a shower designer and a biologist walk into a Costa Rican rain forest.

“This is the neatest thing I’ve found this week,” says the airplane engineer, from Boeing, pointing to a cluster of daddy-longleg spiders gently oscillating on the trunk of a banana tree. “There must be some unique muscular elastic element in their legs sensing vibration and amplitude. There could be really important opportunities here for a low-energy sensor or mechanical actuator system.” Continued over at Popular Mechanics…