Innovations Folgen

On Innovations: a whole new world opens up as a way is found to print lightweight solar panels like money; cars that talk to each other are expected to make driving safer and improve traffic flow but will drivers be overwhelmed with all the chatter, and cleaning up ultrasound probes with a more environmentally friendly approach.

On Innovations: you’ll hear how the diagnosis of tuberculosis was fundamentally changed around the world - because of the dogged and protracted work by four Australian scientists; for diabetics a personalised mobile phone app to better record and manage their condition and for beer drinkers an ancient barley’s secret yields up beer that keeps fresher for longer.

On Innovations: how an appeal to a young smoker’s vanity convinces a considerable number to stop smoking; when his 2-year-old daughter was left with multiple bruises from a blood collection procedure, the engineer dad has now forever changed the way blood is collected and tested; and the development of a far more accurate test for the horticultural disease fire blight that will protect apple and pear industries globally.