A new invention is a rarity but one that makes it through to commercialisation is even more so. Among the questions inventors should ask themselves when planning to take their…
Everybody in the world is familiar with the great Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, but what about Grace Hopper, Mary Anderson and Shirley Jackson? They may not be…
Imagine the windows in your home harvesting the sun’s energy to power your entire household’s electrical needs. It may sound like something out of a movie, but it is closer…
Inventors are the new breed whose ideas are shaping the technology we enjoy today. However, bringing an idea to reality is no easy feat as Ken Foo, founder of SEERS…
Like thousands of Kelantan folks, 2014 was a particularly challenging year for Yusof Ali and his 10 children as the state was hit by the worst flood it had seen…
IN this field, the honour went to Jean-Pierre Sauvage (University of Strasbourg, France), Sir J. Fraser Stoddart (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA) and Bernard L. Feringa (University of Groningen, the…
1. Automatic Egg Boiler Inventor: Datuk Hew Ah Kow. Descriptions: It is a detachable 4-piece plastic ware. Basically, you place raw eggs into the container, pour in boiling water, then…
FOR their work on “theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”, one half of the Nobel prize in the Physics category was awarded to David J.…
JAPANESE cell biologist, Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Institute of Innovative Research professor Yoshinori Ohsumi, was awarded with this honour for his discovery of mechanisms for autophagy. Autophagy, from the Greek…
