This month, newspapers around the world including the South China Morning Post reported that a wax-covered cardboard disc with the voice of Alexander Graham Bell engraved on it had been recovered...
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We all know Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but his remarkable inventiveness did not stop there. From his early 40s until his death, he researched an astounding range of...
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Inventing smart cups for the blind, discovering a minor planet and having it named after him, receiving a full scholarship from Standard Chartered to study at the Hong Kong University of Science...
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If you've ever made a fool of yourself with a completely wrong prediction, don't worry: you're not alone.
These people all said something so spectacularly wrong they are still...
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The Inventors
Alexander Gordon Smith and Jamie Webb
Published by Faber and Faber
ISBN 978 0 571 23310 6
Cat and Nate share a hobby: they...
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Arrow Chuen, 44, Director of a design house
Young Post: How did you set up your design house?
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The Inventors
By Alexander Gordon Smith and Jamie Webb
Published by Faber and Faber
ISBN 978 0 571 23310 6
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Technology has developed rapidly over the past decades, making the world a more prosperous place. Along with the progress, our lives have changed.
In the 19th century, flying was...
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Inventors devise new tools and processes to improve our lives and make them simpler.
Prehistoric inventors came up with the wheel, tools that make fire, looms for weaving cloth and...
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Borromeo Li Ka-kit, 17
Shun Lee Catholic Secondary School
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Ask Zhao Jianing and Weng Yang about cool places to date and they will point to a computer laboratory at the Macau Polytechnic Institute.
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Product: Intellectual Property Department.
Title: Keep Your Invention Confidential (which is part of the 'Mini Segments on IP Protection' campaign).
Production house:...
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