Yo-Yo

The word yo-yo is a Tagalog word, the native language of the Philippines, and means 'come back.' In the Philippines, the yo-yo was a weapon for over 400 hundred years. Their version was large with sharp edges and studs and attached to thick twenty-foot ropes for flinging at enemies or prey. People in the United States started playing with the British bandalore or yo-yo in the 1860s.

It was not until the 1920s that Americans first heard the word yo-yo. Pedro Flores, a Philippine immigrant, began manufacturing a toy labeled with that name. Flores became the first person to mass-produce yo-yos, at his small toy factory located in California.

Duncan saw the toy, liked it, bought the rights from Flores in 1929 and then trademarked the name Yo-Yo.

NUTEC Energy Savings Device For The Flourescent Lamp

In 1999, the inventor, MR. ERIC NGO, an entrepreneur and advocate of the Green Technology, who chose to be an electrical construction-contractor early in his professional life after completing a Business Course in one of the best universities in the Philippines, discovered an invention that revolutionized and consequently reinvented the 100-year old Fluorescent Lamp Lighting System.

THE INVENTION, a component of or a device in the fluorescent lamp lighting system replaces the old LAMP STARTER component that emitted rickety sounds coupled with the light flickering upon start-ups. The INVENTION (NUTEC ENERGY SAVINGS DEVICE) LIGHTS THE FLUORESCENT LAMP INSTANTLY WITHOUT THE FLICKERING, PROLONGS FLUORESCENT LAMP LIFE up to SEVEN (7) YEARS, SAVES AND CUTS ELECTRICITY COST of the fluorescent lamp up to 30%-40%, and RESURRECTS TO LIFE “burnt out” lamps! OTHER benefits on this environment-friendly invention are listed in the next succeeding page. Read More...

Moon Buggy

Filipinos consider Eduardo San Juan as the inventor of the Lunar Rover, or more popularly known as the Moon Buggy. The Moon Buggy was the car used by Neil Armstrong and other astronauts when they first explored the moon in 1969. Eduardo San Juan, a graduate of Mapua Institute of Technology (MIT), worked for Lockheed Corporation and conceptualized the design of the Moon Buggy that the Apollo astronauts used while in the moon. As a NASA engineer, San Juan reportedly used his Filipino ingenuity to build a vehicle that would run outside the Earth's atmosphere. He constructed his model using homemade materials. In 1978, San Juan received one of the Ten Outstanding Men (TOM) awards in science and technology.

Water Powered Car: Solution to the Oil Price Hike

For more than three decades now, Daniel Dingel has been claiming that his car can run with water as fuel. An article from the Philippine Daily Inquirer said that Dingle built his engine as early as 1969. Dingel built a car reactor that uses electricity from a 12-volt car battery to split the ordinary tap water into hydrogen and oxygen components. The hydrogen can then be used to power the car engine.

Dingel said that a number of foreign car companies have expressed interest in his invention. The officials of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) have dismissed Dingel's water-powered car as a hoax. In return, Dingel accused them of conspiring with oil producing countries. Dingel, however, was the not the only man on earth who is testing water as an alternative fuel. American inventors Rudolf Gunnerman and Stanley Meyer and the researchers of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory have been pursuing similar experiments.