Here’s something interesting from our national carmaker Proton. In conjunction with Malaysia day, Proton has launched a new web video series called #BangsaRekaCipta today that will feature Malaysian inventors.
The first documentary-style video features Robest Yong who created the Polyclone instant rubber stamp machine and most recently the VisionTouch screen protector and app to allow the blind to use braille for text messaging on touch screen phones.
If you know of any other Malaysian inventors that you think the series should feature, drop a message at this status message on the Proton Cars Facebook fan page.
Happy Malaysia day everyone!
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Proton should get Peter Schreyer as new design chief. Only then it can sell 1 million cars globally and enjoy RM1 billion profits.
Just paint it red, pair with loud exhaust pipe, then it match the prospective drivers’ character a lot.
Reliable or not, fuel saving or not, who care? The drivers every year has BR1M. Walking on the street also get allowance.
Design is not the only key point. wuts d point of design if the engine and quality is poor? everything must come out as one la. engine, quality and design must have quality and in line with the current trends.
if chinaman car company hired peter schreyer as the design chief and come out with a car, i dont think so you gonna buy the car.
Well said, rubbish cars, I know first hand
LOL, first hand experience. Unfortunately, me too.
Another proof that Malaysians thinks Buatan Malaysia is shit. Im glad that my point below was proven. Thank you!
You proof you’re an idiot on Malaysia day. Thank you
it takes an inventor to turn a commission into a ‘donaion’…jus sayin’!!
Reka? Proton more like copy and paste. See Inspira and Accordana
Dulu Proton hantam Perodua kaki cut paste Daihatsu. Sekarang sendiri mau copy kereta Honda dan Suzuki pula. Hipokrit first class.
Another proof that Malaysians thinks Buatan Malaysia is shit. Im glad that my point below was proven. Thank you!
Not all Perodua model copy and paste meh?
You don’t know P2 is assembler meh?
When to make homegrown cars? 2030?
When P1 close shop
weird. this website takes a longer loading time than Jalopnik. Jalopnik’s loading time is like lightning-speed
Bravo Proton for coming up with this series to honour our own inventors. Hope the series will inspire the inventors among all Malaysian.
Malaysians still minda penjajah. All import products, import technology, import pipu, import thinking is veri gooding.
Local things are useless and full of shit. Local efforts are worthless (except what they do for their own work). To them even homeless Rohingyas dun even wanna use Buatan Malaysia products. Need to kick that far far away.
Menteri2 also don’t buying much Proton cars. Lagi bagus pakai Porsche. Itu macai2 saja pakai Proton. Apa lu mau cakap sekarang? Siapa hipokrit?
You mean like the MPs up north using Camrys and S-keras, but critise others who are using Perdanas? Siapa hipokrit?
MP up north? He did not say Proton good woh. Your Proton founder rather use Porsche than the cars coming out of his factory while your king encourages people to use local products but sendiri guna RR/Bentley. Hipokrit much?
Wah compare Porsche with p1?
You mean like Air Asia, Bonia, Manhattan Fish Market, Gardenia, Flipper etc.? Wow, so hated. No business semua – boleh tutup kedai forever /s.
Go back to your red shirt rally lah you.
Why not called Air Malaysia, why use a Italian name, why Manhattan Market not Central Market, why Gardenia has US mascot & theme, why call Flipper not Slipar?
Why do we need to hide behind something foreign when it is homegrown? Do we only think that only our own efforts and creation are the best, the rest are shit and will be looked down upon? Are we so embarrassed to proudly say this is made in Malaysia?
This is what your nonstop politics did to the country. I say you should be the one to go back, you RBAs.
Seriously? Now arguing that our Malaysian products aren’t Malaysian enough? Apa lagi you mau? Hypocrite much? Who’s the one saying Malaysian products aren’t good enough now? Don’t know what to say to people with your mentality. Everything oso not good enough. By your logic, if Proton were successful, people like you would insist that they make kereta lembu instead of conventional cars.
If you want your own Malaysian brand, you start it lah. Put in the effort. Stop trying to force others to adapt to your preferences.
I am proud of Fareeda. Homegrown brand name.
speechless
sales r down and instead of cipta model baru (bukan copy paste or rebadge) they keep coming up with more contest, tv gameshows and documentaries
how about RekaCiptaBaru current dinosaur Persona and Saga
1. When we think ‘Innovation’, ‘Invention’, ‘Creativity’ ‘Efficiency’ etc we DON’T think PROTON. In fact quite the opposite. What is PROTON trying to prove by launching this web series? Are we to believe that we have misunderstood PROTON’s ability? Is PROTON an inspiring organisation making innovative products?
2. With due respect to Robest Yong, I am sure he isn’t the only inventor out there. There are probably many that go unrecognized. Many more in academia. Probably some receive accolades and awards too like Mr Yong but what I would really like to see are inventors who touched your lives and mine meaningfully by improving our quality of life significantly. These are the Steve Jobs, Elon Musks, Bill Gates, Richard Bransons of the world. These are inventors who knew how to get ideas to market and make a real difference. Ideas are cheap. Delivery is what matters.
Otherwise this video suggests Malaysian are typically ‘jaguh kampung’. Perhaps quite apt for PROTON.
http://says.com/my/tech/everyday-things-you-didn-t-know-were-invented-by-malaysians
8 malaysian Inventions.
Interesting read there.
See if you can find 1 or 2 things in common.
I’m sure this is a short list and many other inventors should be mentioned in due.
Damn, this dude met Stephen Hawkings. Respect!!!!
Another shit story. I think all the gen y who are gonna study abroad, they are most definitely not coming back to this shithole of a country. Just look at this. I’m a gen y myself and all my friends not even one wants to stay in this shithole. Eventually I think most Indians and Chinese are gonna leave this country.
If this country is really shithole, why did your poor ancestors come here in the first place?
Yeah leave ramai2….good
I don’t think they are worth people to stay here neither
Robest Yong
Ok, I’m convinced that the nurses who handled his birth registration misspelled up his name!
Do DRB and Proton realy even care about inventor and innovators they had and lost or fired by them??? I know many of them who were pissed on by drb and proton. reason, being smart is not good for their business….