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By Josh Gregory

Find out about how nature has encouraged technological options with this booklet at the similarities among butterfly wings and show know-how for electronic displays. Integrating either historic and medical views, this e-book explains how butterfly wings encouraged the discovery of latest electronic exhibit know-how. Readers will make connections and think about the connection among the 2 thoughts. Sidebars, pictures, a word list, and a concluding bankruptcy on very important humans within the box upload element and intensity to this informational textual content on biomimicry.

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Fr om B utt er f l y W i n g s t o . .

In 2004, Qualcomm was so impressed with Iridigm’s work that it bought the company for $170 million and turned its work into the Mirasol project. Fr om B utt er f l y W i n g s t o . . D i sp l ay Te c h n o l o g y D a r i n g D i sp l ay D eve l o p e r s 29 If a butterfly can inspire a whole new type of display technology, there’s no telling what biomimicry will produce next! I n no vati o n s F ROM n atu r e 30 absorbed (ab-ZORBD) soaked up artificial (ahr-tuh-FISH-uhl) made by people rather than existing in nature biomimicry (bye-oh-MI-mi-kree) the practice of studying and copying nature’s forms and systems to solve human problems engineers (en-juh-NIRZ) people who are specially trained to design and build things iridescence (ear-uh-DESS-uhnss) the characteristic of some surfaces to change color when viewed from different angles mate (MAYT) to join together to produce babies membrane (MEM-brane) a very thin layer of tissue pigments (PIG-muhnts) substances that give color to something pixels (PIKS-uhlz) tiny dots that make up the visual image on a display screen reflected (ri-FLEK-tid) thrown back from a surface sustainable (suh-STAY-nuh-buhl) done in a way that can be continued and that doesn’t use up natural resources wave (WAYV) an amount of energy that travels through air or water in the shape of a wave, as in sound waves or light waves Fr om B utt er f l y W i n g s t o .

He started a company called Iridigm to research his ideas and develop the new technology. In 2004, Qualcomm was so impressed with Iridigm’s work that it bought the company for $170 million and turned its work into the Mirasol project. Fr om B utt er f l y W i n g s t o . . D i sp l ay Te c h n o l o g y D a r i n g D i sp l ay D eve l o p e r s 29 If a butterfly can inspire a whole new type of display technology, there’s no telling what biomimicry will produce next! I n no vati o n s F ROM n atu r e 30 absorbed (ab-ZORBD) soaked up artificial (ahr-tuh-FISH-uhl) made by people rather than existing in nature biomimicry (bye-oh-MI-mi-kree) the practice of studying and copying nature’s forms and systems to solve human problems engineers (en-juh-NIRZ) people who are specially trained to design and build things iridescence (ear-uh-DESS-uhnss) the characteristic of some surfaces to change color when viewed from different angles mate (MAYT) to join together to produce babies membrane (MEM-brane) a very thin layer of tissue pigments (PIG-muhnts) substances that give color to something pixels (PIKS-uhlz) tiny dots that make up the visual image on a display screen reflected (ri-FLEK-tid) thrown back from a surface sustainable (suh-STAY-nuh-buhl) done in a way that can be continued and that doesn’t use up natural resources wave (WAYV) an amount of energy that travels through air or water in the shape of a wave, as in sound waves or light waves Fr om B utt er f l y W i n g s t o .

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