The Rukunegara For the uninitiated, the clueless, and the non-Malaysians, the Rukunegara is often described as the “ideology” of Malaysia. These days, the Rukunegara does not seem to be valued by Malaysian society. But it’s part of the Malaysian ideology. On 10th May, 1969, there were general elections in Malaysia, following which on 13th May […]
Why Descriptive and Laudatory Trademarks Cannot Be Registered
Great Idea, But Bad News You might have been sitting around with a bunch of friends over dinner. One of your friends points at the chicken and says, “Why don’t we just register a brand of chicken called The Good Chicken?” And the bunch of friends laughs and applauds the idea. Your friend goes home, […]
The Vocoder and its Origins in World War 2
I listened to a podcast… Recently, I tuned in to the 99% Invisible podcast on Tunein. That’s when I heard their very fascinating episode, Vox Ex Machina (Episode 208), which was about an invention from 1939 called the “voder”, called the “voice operating demonstrator”. It was like a piano for voices, because it was a keyboard which […]
Inventors And Innovators Need to Cross The Chasm, Part 2
First of all, I wish to apologise to my readers for having forgotten to update this blog for nearly a month. I wasn’t really sure how to present the idea of “the chasm”. So I was stuck in “analysis paralysis” for a while, thinking of how to start this article. And just by typing those […]
Inventors And Innovators Need to Cross The Chasm, Part 1
Even If You Build It, They Might Not Come Inventors and innovators tend to think that, people will buy whatever they invent. Is this true? Are they merely living a fantasy? There is a famous movie from 1989 called “Field of Dreams”. The movie starred Kevin Costner, Burt Lancaster, Ray Liotta, Amy Madigan, and James […]