The 2018 Young Australian of the Year in NSW won the prestigious Stockholm Junior Water Prize last week. Macinley Butson's ultraviolet radiation sticker accurately measures the solar UV exposure required to sanitise drinking water. Costing less than one US cent to produce, it has the potential to revolutionise the way some of the world's poorest people can be certain that the water they are drinking is safe. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/this-will-stick-in-our-minds-for-a-long-time-macinley-s-invention-could-change-lives-for-one-cent-20190831-p52mm4.html

Australian charities Good Beginnings, Karitane and the Benevolent Society have collaborated on a home visiting program called Volunteer Family Connect, an early intervention program providing one on one support to parents and carers of young children in their home or other safe place.

Australian technology donated to a Southeast Asian nation aims to recycle 20,000 tonnes of plastic each year. Timor-Leste is a target for ocean plastics, and much washes up on their pristine beaches. The country will get a new $60 million recycling plant, with work due to start next year. The plant will help process all their plastic waste and the government is aiming for it to become the world's first plastic neutral nation. Plastic neutral means no used plastics will enter the environment as waste, and will instead be recycled into new products. www.sbs.com.au/news/timor-leste-could-become-the-first-plastic-neutral-nation-thanks-to-australian-technology

Pain ROADMAP is a mobile platform made up of an app for patients with chronic pain and a portal for clinicians. Using the app, you can keep a log of each activity you do throughout the day, your pain levels as you do those activities, what pain medication you take and when. You also wear a device around your waist, which keeps track of when you are moving and resting. Armed with this detailed information, clinicians can help you work out how to better pace your activities through the day to reduce the frequency of intense periods of pain. By using ROADMAP five out of seven people who relied on take-as-needed pain medication were able to stop taking it according to a study. Opioid medication by those in the study also decreased by 20 per cent on average. https://blog.csiro.au/managing-chronic-pain-in-more-mobile-ways/

Double 3 is a self-driving, two-wheeled videoconferencing robot that revolutionises the way you work remotely. You are likely to s

In Corning's A Day Made of Glass videos, you see a world with seamless delivery of real-time information, where people stay connected through a virtual world at their fingertips, and where everyday surfaces are transformed from one-dimensional utilities into sophisticated electronic devices. Ideas in the video are now becoming a reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZkHpNnXLB0&feature=youtu.be