[prepend]

“Llama inspired design” is quite amazing for being a conscious design choice. It does look like a llama, but is that a good thing?

Are llamas in the UX toolkit as an animal that is both semi-exotic yet familiar enough to elicit positive reactions.

I encountered a bunch on Peru trails and they were pretty ornery (compared to yaks or sheep) and the 30 or so different Quechua locals I talked with said they were pretty bad as pack animals. So they seemed pretty normal to me and not really some cool animal.

[jmvoodoo]

This almost seems like someone testing a gpt-3 bot on HN...

[hoseja]

Huh? They are not talking about some sort of aesthetic design. Llamas' immune systems use these short protein antibodies, which seemingly proved useful when artificially modified to block the virus. Nothing to do with branding.

[grenoire]

I don't know if you read the sentence following that, but it's not about the apparatus itself:

"...inspired by nanobodies, antibody-like immune proteins that naturally occur in llamas, camels and related animals."

[jlengrand]

Is that a joke? The whole article is about proteins that can be found in llamas, nothing else.

You did give me a good laugh though.

[HumblyTossed]

This has to be a bot, right?

[prepend]

Not a bot, I think the inhaler looks like a llama and that’s what I meant.