Individual refelction

1. What was the most interesting proposed used of biomimicry that was developed in blog? Why?

The cleaning tool is an interesting proposed in this blog. As we all know, biomimicry is meant to utilise nature's behaviours or patterns to solve humans' problems and this cleaning tool is an idea extracted from houseflies. This innovation can help to ease human's life by cleaning up the dirty area within a shorter time compared to human's hands. It also can reduce the accident rate by replacing the workers who risk their lives to clean up the window or the wall outside the buildings. In addition, the more important point here is that this multipurpose tool is an improvement of the marketed Winbot (window cleaning robot). It can clean not only window but other surfaces as well such as wall, ceiling, roof top and etc. This makes it interesting and worth to be invested.

2. Do you think that your design is patentable? Is it unique enough to be approved?

Yes. In the present market, there is no such a cleaning tool that is able to clean window, wall, ceiling and ect. at the same time. Therefore, it is patentable. The multi-function of this tool makes it unique enough to be approved.

3. Did you think that working as a team made this project easier or harder? Why?

Working as a team can make this project easier definitely. But, it can be harder too. If the team members are the kind of person that always doing the last-minute-works or always absent from the group meeting, you will find it difficult to work with them. However, if your team members are responsible individuals, a better idea or innovation can be proposed from the contribution of each different brain. This is what we called brainstorming. Unfortunately, I got to work this project by myself as I'm from different batch with my biomimetic classmates, we have difficulties to coordinate the time as we have different timetable.