Principal Investigator John Bush
Project Website http://math.mit.edu/~bush/?p=338
Researchers are collaborating with Spanish chef Jose Andres to create biomimetic inventions at the margins of science and the culinary arts, inspired by floating flowers and water-walking insects.
he group is collaborating with cutting-edge Spanish chef Jose Andres at the margins of science and the culinary arts.Two of our biomimetic inventions are being explored and developed by his ThinkFood group.
Inspired by a family of floating flowers, the edible flower (image at right) provides a mean of drinking small volumes of fluid in an elegant fashion.
Inspired by a means of propulsion used by a class of water-walking insects, cocktail boats (image below) propel themselves by generating a fore-aft chemical gradient.