Innovation
Traveller Awards: 10 of the greatest innovations in travel
From a cutting-edge airline cabin to a trailblazing way to experience the outback, these new experiences are the ones you’ll want.
- by Traveller team
Latest
Ice-cream with tomato sauce? McDonald’s is ending its test run of AI drive-thrus
But the fast-food giant has suggested it isn’t ruling out other potential artificial intelligence plans down the road.
- by Wyatte Grantham-Philips
Nearly every beauty product has had a ‘glow-up’. Now, it’s shaving’s turn
A $50 razor and one that slides into the palm of your hand are two of the new products invented by women seeking to challenge a male-dominated industry.
- by Melissa Singer
Video
Inventors
The Fairlight Story
It is one of the greatest innovations in music history, and it came from Sydney, Australia. Video by Tom Compagnoni.
The artificial heart set to transform medicine – and the Aussie who invented it
Biomedical engineer Daniel Timms lost his father to heart disease, but their kitchen-top tests helped him hone a radical idea.
- by Amanda Hooton
Magazine
Good Weekend
The April 20 Edition
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Grand designs: The high-risk plan to make Australian industry great again
Manufacturing is making a comeback as the federal government reshapes and revitalises its role in the economy. But at what cost?
- by Anne Hyland
Opinion
Opinion
Our museum is thriving because we do things differently
Museums are trusted messengers, so we need to be less hubristic about gateways to knowledge.
- by Kim McKay
‘We are the black sheep’: The Australian company backed by some of the world’s richest people
Tom Oxley came up with his idea for a brain chip while at Melbourne University in the late 2000s. Now his company has attracted some of the richest people in the world as investors.
- by Matthew Field
Does the solution to the aged care crisis lie with Australia’s beekeepers?
Australia’s population aged 85 and older will more than double over the next two decades. Is a crisis inevitable?
- by Mary Ward
Exclusive
Healthcare
His dad was dying. So Daniel built a world-first artificial heart – with pipes and magnets
Australia will spend $50 million building the world’s first long-term artificial heart, after the original prototype was built with pieces bought from Bunnings.
- by Sherryn Groch