The Origin of the Speedo Fast Skin Suit

The designer of the original speedo fast skin suit, which was really the first one of these suits on the mark, and fiona fairhurst. She had visited the natural history museum in london, and she got to speak to a shark expert who told her all about dermal denticles. These are chevron shaped structures made out of the same material as teeth,. And they don't exist on all sharks, but they are pretty common. So Fiona went away thinking that could we apply this to humans? Could we make tiny ures like this that would allow us to slip through the water with less resistance? That's what kicks art the project.