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1. The automatic egg boiler. Located in almost every kopitiam and mamak, this nifty device made all half-boiled eggs perfect to its core.
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**Who invented it**: Datuk Hew Ah Kow.
**What it is**: It is a detachable 4-piece plasticware. Basically, you place raw eggs into the container, pour in boiling water, then wait for the water to slowly drip to the bottom. Your eggs are done when the water has drained fully!
Datuk Hew Ah Kow invented the device that would revolutionise all soft-boiled eggs forever.
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2. Rubber stamp clone. Before this invention, you would have to wait for days for a custom rubber stamp to be made. The Polyclone can do it in 5 minutes.
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**Who invented it**: Robest Yong.
**What it is**: The Polyclone rubber stamp machine has changed the rubber stamp industry of the world. With this invention, it takes only five minutes to make rubber stamps when previously one had to order days or weeks in advanced. The invention eliminates completely the need for lettering bits, composing messy plaster moulds, the use of high temperatures, and the need for photographic equipment.
**Bonus**: Robest reached out to us and shared that he has a new product, the VisionTouch Braille Phone, a screen protector with an app to help the visually impaired navigate the touch screen phone. Read how he came up with the idea [here](http://www.apanama.com.my/robest/The%20Heat%20-%20October%2019-25,%202013.pdf)!
3. Nehemiah walls. Did you know those hexagon-shaped blocks along flyovers are invented by a Malaysian? The design is such a success that it is being used in countries such as Singapore, Australia, and Hong Kong.
**Who invented it**: Dr. Nehemiah Lee.
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The Nehemiah walls are more durable and faster to build compared to rigid concrete blocks.
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4. The Lytro Camera. The Lytro camera solves the age-old problem of unfocused photos. Since its inception, many competitors have been mimicking the technology onto their own products.
**Who invented it**: Ren Ng.
Lytro's camera technology enables a user to change the focus of a picture after it has been taken.
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5. Greener and cheaper water dispensers. These water dispensers have been a life saviour to many college students around Malaysia. If you're one of them, you can thank Mr. Ooi for creating this wonderful machine.
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**Who invented it**: Mr Ooi Seng Chye.
**What it is**: A water dispensing machine which processes raw sewage water into clean drinking water, via reverse osmosis method, reducing the waste to nearly nett zero.
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**How did it happen?** Hailing from Penang, Mr. Ooi spent much of his time working as a Purchasing Manager at Wong Engineering Bhd, a company listed on the KL stock exchange. He then moved to Kuala Lumpur to try out new things. His water dispensing system obtained Cradle funding worth RM150,000 and today, he is the proud owner of about 500 RO water dispensing unit placed in various locations around Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya under the brand Good Drink. Mr. Ooi continues to improve his line of dispensers to meet the demand of the market and has started creating a new RO water dispensing system to cater for residences living in high rise buildings.
The RO process of turning raw sewage water into clean, drinkable water.
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6. The Flipper toothbrush holder. Designed to keep your toothbrushes clean, the toothbrush holder was a commercial success and won numerous design awards both locally and abroad.
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**Who invented it**: Goo Yock Tee.
**What it is**: Flipper is a nifty toothbrush holder with a unique patented design. Through a cleverly-designed mechanism, a Flipper stores your toothbrush in an enclosed compartment and yet opens/closes automatically and conveniently.
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7. Flash Drive. All your assignments, all your movies, and songs stored into one little device. Who ever knew it was all because of the work of one Malaysian?
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**Who invented it**: Pua Khein Seng. However there has been some claims from other parties that they have invented the USB flash drive [first](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive).
**What it is**: A USB Flash drive is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface.
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Phua Khein Seng, the founder of Phison and the inventor of the world's first single chip USB flash drive.
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8. Loom bands. The humble rubber band is all the rage in schools today. The ability to create your own jewellery with rubber bands has been a hit, selling 3 million units worldwide!
**Who invented it**: Cheong Choon Ng.
**What it is**: The Rainbow Loom is a plastic device for turning small rubber bands into jewellery.
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