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- Mercedes bionic car
- When car designers start to work on a new project, they usually begin with sketches coming from their experience or their imagination. But when Mercedes-Benz engineers begin to think about a model for a bionic car, they went to the museum... to look at fish. In Mercedes and the boxfish,...
- Tags: boxfish
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
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- Photos: The boxfish, coming to a highway near you
- Forget the lab. Industrial designers find inspiration in nature, where the next scientific breakthroughs may be hiding under a rock or in a murky pond.
- Tags: rock, inspiration
- Image galleries 2006-10-27
- Mercedes bionic car
- Mercedes bionic carBionic? No. But...Organic! Yes. Hard to tell from the picture but looks stylish and functional. More handsome than the Honda box. But did they really need to do studies of fish to discover an aerodynamic design? Seriously. That's what simulators and wind tunnels are for. Holy Fish food...
- Tags: Mercedes
- Discussion threads 2006-09-12
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