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Looking to Nature for Better Technology
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, April 10, 2008.
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A cell phone made of... tapioca? That sounds wrong. But researchers at companies like Nokia, Motorola and IBM are using living organisms, like potatoes, salmon sperm, and viruses, to wean us off petroleum-based plastics and to build parts for computers, cell phones, batteries and light bulbs.
Olga Kharif, senior reporter for BusinessWeek.com, wrote about how scientists are looking to nature to improve consumer technology. She spoke with Word of Mouth's Virginia Prescott from OPB Radio in Portland, Oregon about building a better battery with non-toxic viruses, and using bacterial DNA to create superdense memory chips.
Read The BusinessWeek article "A Cell Phone Made of... Tapioca?"
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