Kiwi Innovation

He’s smaller than usual and he’s had his struggles, but Piwi the kiwi has become the latest chapter in an unfolding story of Kiwi ingenuity.

A party of mountain-loving New Zealanders is carrying on Sir Edmund Hillary’s torch – an ongoing friendship between Kiwis and the Sherpas of Nepal – by helping foster a quiet revolution on the side of Mount Everest.

An inspired ‘steampunk’ design has won New Zealand artist Yolanda Bartram first place at the 2010 World Body Painting Festival in Austria.

A Kiwi online social network dubbed ‘Facebook for five-year-olds’ is taking off overseas - with more than 21,000 members globally while still in its test stage.

Two New Zealand businesswomen have dreamed up a cuddly soft toy to help promote the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

A Masterton hot rod company is ready to set the international market on fire with its special range of high-quality ‘toys’.

Listen up Lord of the Rings fans - you too can have Hobbit ears just like Frodo Baggins’ - hand-made and now available from Middle Earth.

The world’s ‘ultimate sailing experience’ turned 10 this week – and Kiwi inventor Paul Beckett is quietly confident that the blokart will last the distance.

Replicas of New Zealand’s quirky Yellow Treehouse may soon be seen all over the world.

A project designed to pull the eyes of the world back onto the benefits of wool has brought international architects together in New Zealand to design a “woolly” hotel complex.