Jay Harman on the enormous promise of biomimicry to create more efficient technologies
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Jay Harman
This week’s guest is Jay Harman, entrepreneur and inventor. Harman has taken a hands-on approach to his lifelong fascination with natural fluid systems. In the process, he has grown companies that design innovative products, ranging from prize-winning watercraft called the WildThing and the Goggleboat, to a medical research company that developed a non-invasive technology for measuring blood glucose, to his latest company, PAX Scientific. Born and raised in Australia, Harman’s love of nature began as a boy swimming in the ocean near his home. He began his career as a naturalist with the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, but he quickly demonstrated talents as an inventor. While still with the Australian government, he designed, built, and licensed a set of crustacean measuring gauges as well as a range of hovercraft. Harman is at the leading edge of biomimicry, following nature’s models to design more efficient products and devices. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Shark’s Paintbrush in which he explains his many developments in biomimickry. Harman appears in Prince Charles’s documentary Harmony: A New Way of Looking at the World