仿生學:超感官
31/07/2020
視覺、嗅覺、聽覺、觸覺、味覺,我們這五個感官幫我們探索周圍的世界,並提醒我們當中的危險。可以即使我們的眼睛、耳朵、鼻子、味蕾或皮膚有多發達,我們的感覺器官也不能讓我們洞悉所有威脅!雖然大自然賦予我們各個感官,但事實上確是有一些「信號」是人類無法感知的。
同時,一些生物卻能輕易感應和譯解這些信號,因為數十億年的物種演化迫使他們發展出高效的偵測策略和強大的感應器,來自我保護、互相溝通和覓食。
要是我們能複制這些「超級感應器」來提升自身能力的話會怎樣?要是大自然教會我們如何迅速識別潛在的危險、令我們能更懂得避開危機,又會怎樣?
在節目中,主持人卡蓮娜.拉斯金會與多位研究人員,企業家和發明家會面,他們受到大自然的超強感應力啟發,想出各種能夠改善人類生活條件的構想。
電視版本:雙語廣播(粵語/英語)
Sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste: our 5 senses allow us to understand the world around us and warn us of its dangers. But as advanced as our eyes, our ears, our noses, our taste buds or our skin may be, our sensory organs do not allow us to apprehend all threats! There are indeed "signals" that we humans are unable to perceive with the senses that nature has endowed us with.
Meanwhile, some living species can easily sense and decode these signals (infrared, vibrations...) because, over billions of years of evolution, they were compelled to devise hyper-efficient detection strategies and to develop overpowering sensors to protect themselves, communicate or feed.
What if we could copy these "super sensors" to increase our own capabilities? What if nature taught us how to swiftly identify the dangers that await us, so that we could avoid them better.
In this episode, Kalina Raskin will meet researchers, entrepreneurs and innovators who are inspired by nature’s super sensitivity to provide us with the resources needed to improve our life conditions, everywhere on the planet.
TV Version: Bilingual Broadcast (Cantonese/English)
https://www.rthk.hk/tv/dtt31/programme/sciencewithyou/episode/689042