And a less obvious application is in an easy-to-clean filter: stretch this filter and its pores grow, allowing stuff stuck in them to be flushed away when the filter is washed.That line of thinking leads to the idea of smart filters, which maintain a constant pore size by stretching as they get clogged up, and also to bandages that dispense drugs in response to swelling.
And a less obvious application is in an easy-to-clean filter: stretch this filter and its pores grow, allowing stuff stuck in them to be flushed through when the filter is washed.That line of thinking leads to the idea of smart filters, which maintain a constant pore size by stretching as the gets clogged up, and also to bandages that dispense drugs in response to swelling.
It remains to be seen next week how much of this Tea Party-type of thinking filters through into the Republican's national platform document, but the statements above certainly provide a somewhat unpalatable hors d'oeuvre.
"The Cohn vena cava filter was a highly innovative piece of thinking well before its time," said Dr. John Neoptolemos, chairman of the department of surgery at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in England.
And applying the sustainability filter to innovation efforts sparks new patterns of thinking.
Myhrvold and his inventors had already done a lot of thinking about using tiny optical filters capable of identifying and zapping microscopic particles.
Through snatched whispers, cutting asides and intimate confidences filtering through headphones audiences had the unnerving effect of thinking they were party to some horrendous crime.
These influences tend to be forgotten, but they have evolved since 1919, until decanting in the "Design Thinking" method, which, with the filters of contemporaneity, has put the own way of "thinking and doing" of the design at the disposal of other disciplines.
New way of thinking: really?
Old way of thinking: really?
