THREE local inventors did the nation proud by signing a cooperative deal with United States-based lunar logistics company, Astrolab, reported Metro Ahad.
The trio from Aphelia Sdn Bhd – Muhammad Mohd Kamil, 29, Muhammad Razlan Dhamir Hamdan, 29, and Lee Guo Rui, 25 – caught the eye of the company with their invention, Wireless Power Technology for Space Applications.
Aphelia founder Muhammad Razlan said they had represented Malaysia in the world’s largest start-up competition, the Startup World Cup 2023, held last year in San Francisco and which saw participants from 40 countries. He said although their company only managed to make it to the semi-finals, it was still a proud moment for them.
“The difference between our technology and others, particularly from US and Canada, is that they use laser whereas we use radio signals. It is much safer,” he said.Muhammad Razlan said now that they had signed the deal with Astrolab to develop the technology, their mission would be to source for funding and implement the project.
He said the idea for the invention came about in 2017 when he was studying electrical and electronic engineering at University Teknologi Mara in Penang, adding that they started working on it in 2020.
> Kosmo! Ahad reported that netizens had come to the defence of popular songtress Datuk Seri Siti Nurhaliza amid speculation that her marriage was in trouble.
This came after the 45-year-old brushed aside such talk by recently posting a short message on Instagram.
“Love to gossip, yes. Not good to conjure up things which are not,” she said in her post which was accompanied by a photo of her husband Datuk Seri Khalid Mohamad Jiwa and their two children.Many of her fans then left their remarks in the comment section.
“It is normal for people to stir problems whereas Siti is happy.
“Whatever it is, I wish my idol will continue to be happy with Datuk K,” wrote a netizen.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
