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But this chickenwire carbon, called a carbon nanotube, is a hundred thousand times smaller than the width of one of your hairs.
And a cockroach has all these beautiful hairs and pricklies all over it.
Today we can manufacture structures that mimic the hairs of a gecko's foot.
So that's just the eye of the bee with a microscope, and now all of a sudden you can see that the bee has thousands of individual eyes called ommatidia, and they actually have sensory hairs in their eyes so they know when they're right up close to something, because they can't see in stereo.
Now if we look at animals, though, to be really maneuverable in all surfaces, the animals use hybrid mechanisms that include claws, and spines, and hairs, and pads, and glue, and capillary adhesion and a whole bunch of other things.
You see the hairs and the claws and this thing here.
If you look at their feet, they have leaf-like structures called linalae with millions of hairs.
So to our blueprint, we split some hairs.
We took some hairs from a molting gecko; put three rolls of them on here, and then made this Band-Aid.
These tuned structures allow the spines, friction pads and ultimately the adhesive hairs to grab onto very challenging, difficult surfaces.
And when I saw this figure, the hairs raised up on the back of my neck, because one way to think about it is, "Oh, that's interesting, captive monkeys are sort of on their way to becoming like Americans."
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Ow! (Laughter) That's one five-thousandths of the width of one of my hairs, over this entire 27 feet.
And some of you might be thinking that it's a growth on your aunt's face with hairs sticking out of it.
Dust sticks to the moisture on our skin when we sweat and the tiny hairs on our skin when we are dry.
When you move, the fluid shifts and tickles the hairs, telling your brain if you're moving horizontally or vertically.
The full-headed among us have about 100,000 to 150,000 hairs on our scalps, and scientists have discovered two things about this dense thicket.
Finally, hairs enter telogen, the resting phase, which lasts for ten to twelve weeks, and affects about 5-15% of your scalp follicles.
During telogen, up to 200 club hairs can be shed in a day, which is quite normal.
The node is lined with tiny hairs called cilia, while tilt away from the head and whirl around rapidly, all in the same direction.
It's the reason we can find geometric shapes in the night sky, it's why we can know without checking that at least two people in London have exactly the same number of hairs on their head, and it explains why patterns can be found in just about any text, even Vanilla Ice lyrics.
And if you blow that up, and zoom in 900 times, you see there are hairs there, tiny hairs.
And if you look carefully, those tiny hairs have striations.
The smallest branch of the hairs looks like spatulae, and an animal like that has one billion of these nano-size split ends, to get very close to the surface.
What we're doing is, we're taking that inspiration of the hairs, and with another colleague at Berkeley, we're manufacturing them.
And now here's my Venus flytrap, and inside the leaf, you're going to notice that there are three little hairs here, and those are trigger hairs.
It counts the number of seconds between successive touching of those hairs.
And so if you'll allow me, I'm going to go ahead and trigger this mimosa right now by touching on the hairs of the Venus flytrap.
He had this amazing series of hairs growing out of a mole on the left side of his face, which I'm told is very good luck.
A forest of curved hairs prevents his escape, guiding him into a central chamber with flesh-digesting enzymes and deadly low levels of oxygen.
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