Innovations

Innovations

Innovations (Desley Blanch)

Innovations

A showcase of Australian design, discovery, invention, engineering and research skills.  Hosted by Radio Australia's Desley Blanch.

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Clunies Ross winners - TB group

Tuberculosis diagnosis in animals and humans

Updated 21 May 2013, 9:31 AEST

ATSE Clunies Ross awards celebrate innovation in technology

Robin Huang, Donald Zhang, Andrew Chen

Diabetes management app

Updated 16 May 2013, 15:08 AEST

BlueClover is a mobile phone app which does away with manual record-keeping for diabetics

Barley researchers_Stewart Coventry, Amanda Box, Jason Eglinton

New barley makes beer stay fresher for longer

Updated 16 May 2013, 13:59 AEST

Modified barley grown in South Australia will extend the shelf-life of beer

Rachel Mann examines with dish

New test for fire blight disease

Updated 2 May 2013, 14:16 AEST

Going global - a far more accurate test for the devastating horticultural disease that affects apple and pear industries 

photo-ageing software helps persuade young people to stop smoking

Face-ageing software encourages young smokers to quit

2 May 2013, 13:21 AEST

The importance of personal appearance at an older age is persuading some young adult smokers to quit

John Kelly holds new blood test device

Fast blood test for a range of diseases

2 May 2013, 13:20 AEST

The first integrated rapid blood test for use away from a laboratory

Infograph for broadband-connected homes

New age for Apps

Updated 18 April 2013, 16:03 AEST

How a broadband-connected home might look with new ways to access health, energy, education and more

Public transport chair for the wheelchair-bound

Public transport chair for the wheelchair-bound

18 April 2013, 12:11 AEST

A coach seat mechanism to give the wheelchair-bound access to public transport 

OK contact lens

Contact lens worn overnight restores up-close vision

18 April 2013, 12:10 AEST

New technique shows promise in restoring near vision without glasses

Researchers who made optic fibres faster

Fibre optic cables to get better

Updated 8 April 2013, 10:47 AEST

All of the world’s internet traffic will suddenly get a whole lot faster

TB Research Group Centenary Institute

The fight steps up against tuberculosis

Updated 4 April 2013, 14:21 AEST

An initiative to stop the spread and impact of tuberculosis in Asia and the Pacific has now opened in Sydney

Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease

Tasmanian devil cancer's hope for vaccine against facial tumours

4 April 2013, 12:55 AEST

Cracked: a key mystery surrounding the cancer which is pushing Tasmanian devils to extinction 

Prof David Sinclair and Dr Joseph Baur

New class of anti-ageing drugs

Updated 21 March 2013, 13:38 AEST

A remarkable discovery that may change the way we think about ageing—forever

Ni-Ti nanorwire composite comparison

Shape-shifting nanomaterial

Updated 25 March 2013, 13:29 AEST

A new super-strong nanowire composite material that will find its way into applications ranging from dental braces, to mobile phones, to cables

Phoslock is applied to Serpentine lake

New way to control algal blooms

21 March 2013, 13:36 AEST

Removing phosphorus from waterways to prevent harmful algal blooms

HIVteam with Sharon Lewin

HIV's genetic hiding place discovered

Updated 12 March 2013, 10:36 AEST

How scientists have figured how to make the HIV virus wake up from its hiding place with a strategy known as 'shock and kill'

 

Zebedee handheld laser mapping device

Handheld laser mapping device

Updated 12 March 2013, 9:56 AEST

Zebedee is the first truly mobile hand-held rapid laser mapping system 

image of new flu drug

New flu drug

7 March 2013, 11:11 AEST

to safeguard against spread of flu virus and combat flu pandemic

Prof Colin Sullivan

Sleep sensor mat monitors vital signs

Updated 7 February 2013, 16:19 AEST

A device that could revolutionise the diagnosis and monitoring of sleep disorders from within the home

Animal on walk-over weighbridge_Remote Livestock Management System

Outback cattle mustering set to go automatic

Updated 7 February 2013, 14:17 AEST

An Australian technology company is close to commercialising the first fully automated system to remotely muster and manage cattle herds in the rangelands of the world

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