The surprising stories behind four helpful household inventions to improve home life: Gilbert Toyne created an Aussie backyard icon - the rotary clothes hoist - only to have it made famous by someone ...

Patents online From the Hills hoist and Vegemite to the bionic eye and cervical cancer vaccine, more than 100 years of Australian patent applications appear on a new online database aunched this week.

As we celebrate Waitangi Day, a survey about innovation on both sides of the Tasman, by Australian winery Taylors Wines, celebrates the Kiwi and Aussie inventions that have made the world a better ...

Plastic soy sauce fish could soon be replaced by a new Aussie invention made from sugar cane waste. Most people take two or three of the tiny capsules to cover their sushi, so the new “Holy Carp” ...

Australia is leading the world in the development of many new technologies. Here are some of the most cutting edge inventions you never knew about. This includes the world’s first hydrogen battery ...

OF COURSE wine in a box is one of them. Check out the rest of these awesome inventions you never knew Australia gave the world. But that’s not how 99.9 per cent of great ideas are born. Most great ...

An early fault detection (EFD) system designed at RMIT University is helping to prevent bushfires and blackouts in North America, Europe and Australia. IND Technology, which has commercialised this ...

An Australian mum with a simple idea has created a world-first product that solves one very annoying issue we’ve all experienced. What she hadn’t fantasised about was the annoying and messy aftermath ...