Movies and books do more than just spark our imagination and send us on a virtual journey, for many they provide the spark for a lifelong quest to bring to life the objects and gadgets that the characters are using. Star Trek (1966) spawned a dozen or more of today’s technologies including the mobile phone, the tricorder, replicators (3D […]
I got an on-air call today from Gillian O’Shaughnessy of ABC Radio Perth to ask why inventions are no longer named after their inventors. What a great question! Thinking back, Henry F Phillips invented the Phillips screwdriver and screw; Candido Jacuzzi invented the Jacuzzi; William Henry Hoover the hoover vacuum cleaner; Jules Leotard the leotards; […]
In the world of innovation Australia has always punched well above its weight, including producing the first full length movie, cochlear ear implants, hills hoist, pacemaker, in-vitro fertilisation, wine casks and tonnes of others In our monthly look into the Future, Gold Coast ABC’s Nicole Dyer and I chatted about what inventions we’ve already seen, […]
Australia’s future in many ways will be determined by its ability to innovate and invent. Innovate being taking what we already know and doing more or different with it and inventing being to bring about something we have not know before. Both of these are great and we need to continue our long history of […]