Pinoy Inventions

YOYO - was invented as a hunting weapon by the ancient Filipino, probably in the Visayas. It was "discovered" when Magellan landed.

BAYANIHAN OPERATING SYSTEM - is a Filipino-made LINUX operating system.

First Video Phone - invented by Gregorio Y. Zara in 1955.

FIRST SINGLE-CHIP GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE ACCELERATOR - developed by Diosdado Banatao, that made computers work a lot faster. This invention has allowed computer users to use graphics for commands and not the usual typed commands in older computers. It has allowed data processing to be a little faster using very little space, with small chips instead of large boards.

Roberto del Rosario is a Filipino who has a string of inventions in the field of music like the Trebel Voice Color Code (VCC) accompaniment, the piano tuner’s guide, the piano keyboard stressing device and the voice color tape. His one-man-band (OMB) invention later became the Sing-Along-System (SAS), from which the Japanese eventually developed the Karaoke. He is still fighting a losing war for intellectual infringement.

Eduardo San Juan, a graduate of Mapua, is another Filipino inventor who devised the Lunar Rover or the Moon Buggy, which was the vehicle used by the first-man-on-the-moon, Neil Armstrong, in 1969. San Juan, a NASA engineer, conceptualized the Moon Buggy designed as an electric vehicle that can operate in the low-gravity vacuum of the moon. Because of his feat, he received the 1978 Ten Outstanding Young Men award.

Francisco Quisumbing, was a Filipino chemist who invented Quink ink, which is used in fountain pens. Quink stands for Quisumbing ink, a quick drying ink that easily dries on paper while cleaning the pen as it writes and thus preventing the ink from clogging the pen. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he founded the Philippine Ink Corporation after the war.