List of Malaysian inventions and discoveries

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• Automatic egg boiler – Invented by Hew Ah Kow, a detachable 4-piece plastic ware.
• Bakakuk – Invented by indigenous people in the state of Sabah, a homemade shotgun used for hunting wild animals and protect traditional farms of the local natives.
• Bandung – Invented by the Malays, a drink consists of evaporated milk or condensed milk flavoured with rose cordial syrup, giving its pink colour. Although its name are Bandung, which is a city of Indonesia, the drink is hardly to be found there.
• Flipper toothbrush cover – Invented by Goo Yock Tee and Tang Peng Kee, a unique and globally-patented one-touch mechanism flips open/close automatically in response to the gentle tug or push of the toothbrush.
• Greener/cheaper water dispensers – Invented by Ooi Seng Chye, a water dispensing machine which processes raw sewage water into clean drinking water through reverse osmosis method.
• Lytro camera – Invented by Ren Ng, a camera technology to solves the problem of unfocused photos.
• Nehemiah walls – Invented by Nehemiah Lee, fly-over walls consists of three major components: a facade, reinforcing bars, and soil. The wall comprises hexagonal blocks of pre-cast concrete, each interlocked with dowel bars.
• Rainbow Loom – Invented by Cheong Choon Ng, a plastic device for turning small rubber bands into jewellery.
• Rubber stamp clone – Invented by Robest Yong, a new technology to make rubber stamp faster which only takes five minutes than need to take only one order for a day or weeks.
• Sapeh – Invented by the indigenous people of Orang Ulu in Sarawak, a type of string instruments.
• Sompoton – Invented by the indigenous people of Dusun in Sabah, a type of mouth organ instruments.
• USB flash drive, a data storage device – Invented by Pua Khein-Seng although there were also claims from other parties.