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//High Speed Train//**
 * Look over examples of Janines biomimetic principles applied to products in the slideshow located at and write a short, one paragraph synopsis for each of your three favorite product designs.**
 * The **500 Series Shinkansen bullet train ** in Japan at a 200mph top speed is easily one of the fastest and definitely the most silent trains in the world. Its biomimetic nose design was inspired by the **kingfisher's beak. This obvious sharp design easily penetrates through air resistance ultimately reducing greatly noise pollution. To further the silence is the biomimetic owl inspired small serrations on the sides of the train. In all this makes the 500 Series Shinkansen bullet train a silent Biomimetic masterpiece.

Columbia Forest Products manufactures makes panels used in high-end cabinetry and furniture as well as various flooring surfaces. The researchers in the company also developed ultrastrong glue that contains no toxins inspired by the composition of the secretions mussels use to cling to surfaces underwater.
 * //Toxin-free Glue//**

Artist Joris Laarman from Rotterdam in the Netherlands, designed a line of furniture, inspired by bone structure. The structure forms a strong architectural matrix of support. The software used to create these aluminum chairs mimic processes of bone growth overtime. This kind of concept has been transferred to car designs by GM who use lighter material of equal strength.
 * //Bone Furniture//**

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