Garage Sale Trail, the multiple award-winning program, is the biggest real-world, community-based market-place in Australia that happens all over the country on one day, May 5th, 2012. A program that was initially aimed at households, Garage Sale Trail has been adopted by a range of...

An international research team led by scientists at Griffith University, has uncovered a new insight into leukaemia and intensifying the battle against the most common childhood cancer in Australia. The preliminary study has explored, for the first time, changes to leukaemic cells, associated...

Captions have long been available for television and movies, but live theatre has traditionally been trickier to understand for those with hearing loss or other impairments. That’s where Australian The Captioning Studio comes in, with a new app that delivers real-time theatre captioning on...

The Balmain Boat Company creates flat-packed DIY boats for quick and easy construction. A revival of traditional crafts and skills has prompted a flurry of recent innovations, from cheese-making kits to tools for designing and building houses. The Balmain Boat Company creates flat-packed DIY...

Clothing for Correspondence is a letter-writing service that asks only an item of clothing in return for its written work. We’ve already seen a few sites on which buyers can pay by unusual means — a recent example being SocialWhispers, where tweets or Facebook mentions can be used in place...

QkR is a mobile payment system that uses QR codes and NFC tags to enable cinemagoers to order and pay for food from their seat. The list of uses for QR codes appears to be endless. We’ve seen them used to teach vocabulary and track employee hours, and now we’ve discovered QkR — a mobile...

Here are the top 5 Australian world-changing ideas for 2011 as voted by you. 5. No Strings Attached. Introducing the world’s first string-free guitar. Kitara. Kitara is a digital guitar and a new breed of instrument that combines fret buttons and a touchscreen to make music in a completely...

A group of terrorists has been transported from Sydney to the United States where American marines will be allowed to take pot shots at them with live ammunition. Before the human rights lobby fires up, it should be pointed out that these terrorists are robots, built to mimic the movements of...

Creative Spirit is an ambitious new initiative by Droga5 with the aim of encouraging creative industry companies to employ people with a disability. Co-developed with Break Thru People Solutions, an employment agency specialising in placing those with physical or developmental challenges into...

A Kelvin Grove video game developer has signed licensing agreements with DreamWorks and THQ. Halfbrick CEO Shainiel Deo loves his work and is being rewarded handsomely for doing it. The company has recorded a 350 per cent jump in revenue to $9.5 million for the 2011 financial year and a new...

Australian Espressogrow is a sustainable fertilizer product that uses 100 percent waste coffee grounds mixed with a proprietary blend of organic nutrients. In addition to supplying nitrogen, coffee grounds also act as a deterrent to garden pests and slugs. Espressogrow seeks Australian Capital...

The Speedo LZR RACER worn by swimmers at the 2008 Olympic Games was the most technologically advanced performance swimsuit ever produced. With its ultra lightweight woven nylon elastane fabric, ultra thin low drag panels, and ultrasonically welded seams it delivered the optimum streamlined...

An Australian designer has won this year’s James Dyson Award with an invention that sounds more like magic than science and the inventor owes his success to an unassuming beetle. Edward Linacre’s elegant Airdrop irrigation system literally pulls water out of thin air and may...