Designer: Sycamore


Sometimes inspiration for an arm can come from the most unlikely of places. If you were lucky enough to grow up around a sycamore maple tree, you will remember how fun it was to throw the fallen pods up into the air to watch them gracefully helicopter their way back to the ground. The Sycamore Ceiling Fan looks like a human made maple pod for good reason. That single arm creates more airflow than traditional 3-4 arm ceiling fans and does it at lower speeds with less energy.



The resulting design is far more attractive and an award winner down under; a perfect example of how biomimicry is an area of science just waiting for us to discover more efficient solutions in our human made world. Who would have thought, an arm to a blade.


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