Stronger
The Kanye West x Idealog collab needs to happen
Hey, Yeezy: we hear you’re getting into the VC game. Let’s join forces.
Party like an alien
Idealog's space disco playlist: An ode to Peter Beck and the Humanity Star
New Zealand's space industry is taking flight thanks to the strides made by Rocket Lab, and nothing is a more celebratory reflection of this than the Humanity Star/giant disco ball it has launched into space. To celebrate a New Zealand company starting an intergalactic party, the Idealog team has put their heads together and compiled a space disco playlist that will make even those in zero gravity want to try bop their heads.
Innovation Awards
New Zealand Innovation Awards: Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab has successfully launched three satellites into orbit - a first for a New Zealand company. To celebrate the achievement, we're republishing this story about the company's 2017 New Zealand Innovation Awards win that also featured in our Innovation Issue last year.
New Zealand Innovation Awards
The big reveal: Rocket Lab takes out top prize at The New Zealand Innovation Awards
The very best of Kiwi innovation has been recognised again at the annual New Zealand Innovation Awards.
Blastoff
How New Zealand is winning the trans-Tasman race to space billions
It’s not (officially) a race but it still feels a victory when respected Australian space archaeologist Alice Gorman (aka Dr Space Junk) says they are “very envious” of what’s happening in New Zealand.
Wish we'd thought of that
Wish we'd thought of that: Intriguing design innovations
New Zealand is known as a nation of innovation. Do you have something cool you've come up with that you think deserves to be recognised at the 2017 New Zealand Innovation Awards? Then enter it in the Innovation in Design & Engineering category, sponsored by James & Wells.
Innovation nation
MOTAT's 'The Innovators' goes into the heads of clever Kiwis
New Zealand is a nation of innovation. And that’s the message a new exhibition at Auckland’s Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) is trying to get across.
Research
Shooting for the stars with R&D
In fields as diverse as accounting and space travel, companies are placing their R&D; at the heart of their way of working, says Simon Brown, Callaghan Innovation GM of Accelerator Services.
Space
Rocket Lab’s mission: from Middle Earth to space with the electric Rutherford Engine for US$4.9 million
Peter Beck’s Rocket Lab aims to send a rocket to space for as little as US$39 million
