A Brave New Summer: Our Facebook fans cook up some Aussie inventions

By Jesse Hawley

It’s often said that ‘necessity is the mother of invention’, but last weekend on Facebook we discovered that the promise of CSIRO-branded aprons can also be a mother, or at least uncle, of invention. Yes — we dangled ten charcoal aprons in front of the enterprising eyes of our dear Facebook followers with a request to cook up some summer-inspired Aussie inventions. The submissions were as bemusing as they were magical. Here they are:

If you were one of the unlucky bunch to miss out on an apron, there’s always our merch store right here.