MUST READ: The Inventor’s Dilemma
HAPPY World Intellectual Property Day! A tricky issue that has long plagued inventors and researches who invent potentially commercially useful products or processes is the dilemma whether to: Seek patent rights…
Be Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ) ready at ITEX 2017
THE Malaysian government has long acknowledged that digitalisation will change the face of business sooner than we know it. Malaysia’s big push for digitalisation became evident when Prime Minister Datuk Seri…
Growing Trees Into Furniture & Art
THE next time you sit on a wooden chair, don’t be surprised to discovered that the chair has been ‘grown’ and not manufactured in a factory. No nails, fixings or…
From Sci-Fi Dream to Reality
FOR many decades, science fiction films have often shown what they think the future could look like – some were ludicrous, some were realised. However, self-lacing shoes was a…
Green Food – The Tesla of Food?
IMAGINE a plant-based hamburger patty that not only looks and tastes just like meat but bleeds as well. Or how about trying some meatless chicken strips with the same fleshy…
On The Right Track of Brilliance
LAST YEARS'S Malaysian Young Inventor Exhibition (MYIE) held concurrently at ITEX 2016 has witnessed over hundreds of entries of ingenious creations submitted by the young minds from Malaysian schools. Among them…
Young Innovative Leaders of Tomorrow
#ICYMI We are excited to share this once again that ITEX 2017 will be launching the inaugural World Young Inventors Challenge from 11 - 13 May 2017. It is an invention…
WYIE 2017: A Tribute to Junior Inventors
AT ITEX 2017 we are all about paying tribute to the young and brilliant minds of our time. The World Young Inventors Exhibition (WYIE) will return again this year to…
You Need to Know The Next Wave of Wearable Tech
WEARABLE technology has been around for a long time, even though it may not have been in the form that we are accustomed to. A prime example would be calculator…
Charge Your Devices As You Move Your Body
A GROUP of Chinese and American scientists recently developed a fabric that can power wearable devices by harvesting energy from both sunlight and body movements. It can also be made on…
