Innovation from nature’s colours. Seeing the world of colour through animal eyes not only reveals a whole other reality, it has inspired technological advances. Award winning biologist Devi Stuart Fox opens our eyes to the variety of human innovation that has been inspired by the fascinating world of colour and colour change in animals, and suggests that understanding the near-infrared represents the next frontier. Devi Stuart-Fox is a biologist with a passion for colour. She has travelled the globe to find out how and why nature’s diversity of colour evolved – and for this quest, she has chosen to focus on lizards – from colour changing chameleons in South Africa to Australian bearded dragons. She is currently an academic at the University of Melbourne and won the 2013 L’Oreal-UNESCO ‘In the footsteps of Marie Curie’ prize for women in science. Subscribe to TEDxStKilda for ideas worth spreading, produced by Geonewmedia. www.tedxstkilda.com This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

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