Featured video: Top 10 inventions of 2009

Check out this kid’s top 10 list of homemade inventions.

Errrm… it’s full of pens converted to guns using rubber bands and sticks. Either he’s going to end up in the spy business or he’s headed to TV as MacGyver’s replacement.

Best of 2009 (src: TableTop Inventions)

“e” Awards: Homemade ain’t bad at all

What happened on UCreateChange.com (22-28 Mar 2010)

Think soups: steaming, hearty and good for you. The best ones are purportedly homemade and made from the heart.

The same goes for inventions. The good ones are created by people who see a need and fix it, regardless of opposition. That’s why we heart these inventors and their inventions… after all they do (or might) change the world that we live in.

So we’re rating last week’s posts with to    on merit and potential. Let us know what you think about it in the comments.

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Asian Inventions

What happened on UCreateChange.com (22-28 Feb 2010)

The Japanese and Koreans are technology whizzes. After all the world’s best electronics come from that part of Asia. The latest news has them turning tech into art, like the OLED screens that double up as art pieces from Nanobrick. Or they’re keeping it beautifully functional like the Zero emission house in Japan that’s built with ecologically friendly materials and uses the latest technology to generate and monitor energy use.

Closer to home, did you know that Singaporeans invented many things that we use today?

The PC sound card that turns beeps and bleeps into voices and music comes courtesy of Creative Technologies Sim Wong Hoo (crica 1989). Or the ubiquitous Thumb Drive by Trek Technologies that everyone carries photos, articles and videos in. Now some of them have even become as collectible as Be@rBricks! More recently there are the X-mini capsule speakers that use vacuum to mimic sub-woofers. Odd, I thought sound couldn’t travel in a vacuum?

Can’t get enough of Asian inventions?

Here are 50 of the best Asian inventions that have made an impact throughout the centuries. Apparently Asians have domesticated animals, cultivated crops, and created the toothbrush way before anyone else!

Singapore: the land of “no ingenuity”?

Not if my trawl through the net had anything to say about it.

My research for this week’s posts on Asian inventions and Asian inventors at UCreateChange.com turned up an amazing revelation: Singaporeans are as inventive as Koreans, Japanese, or Silicon Valley types.

A little history, we have plenty of firsts – Sim Wong Hoo for PC sound cards (to better listen to MP3), Trek Technology for thumbdrives (to better carry data around), and X-mini for mini subwoofers (to better blast emo-punk music).

We know them cause they made it to the top. So are there inventors who aren’t on our collective Wikipedia entry?

Hell, yeah.

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