Anthill Magazine teamed up with market research firm Colmar Brunton and 1,600 ‘mavens’ to identify 100 of Australia’s most promising product innovations. Introducing… the inaugural Smart 100.
The Process:
- 6 months
- 861 nominations
- 1,600 maven judges
- 100 winners
Why the Smart 100?
The word ‘innovation’ means many things to many people. In fact, it’s becoming so over-used it’s in danger of losing its meaning… and relevance. This would be a sad outcome, indeed.
For the past six years, Anthill Magazine has championed all things innovative.
This is because, quite simply, new ideas form the foundation of new products, new services and new industries. It’s not rocket science. New ideas are what make a company, or country, commercially competitive.
Now that the global economic woes have firmly grabbed our collective national hip-pocket, this simple observation has never been truer.
Longer term stability isn’t the result of large corporate bail-outs. Nor does it come from stimulus packages. While both these measures can stave off the icy fingers of an economic downturn, neither position a nation for long-term prosperity.
That’s why, in late 2008, we decided to practice what we preach (at least, more so than usual) and develop an awards program that would, hopefully, be as innovative as the companies and products we write about.
We partnered with global market research leader Colmar Brunton to rank Australia’s top 100 most innovative products, as nominated by our readers, and, in doing so, created a new way of ranking innovation, away from the usual academic puffery, in sync with the commercial considerations of real people – our mavens.
Bring on the Smart100!
James Tuckerman
Editor-In-Chief
Anthill Magazine
2009 SMART 100 RANKINGS TABLE
| RANK | INDEX | INNOVATION | COMPANY NAME | STATE |
| 1 | 620 | Fermiscan Breast Cancer Test | Fermiscan Pty Limited | NSW |
| 2 | 564 | FreeTrekka Replacment Wheelchair Wheel | Jacob Grech Design | NSW |
| 3 | 560 | BNC105 | Bionomics Limited | SA |
| 4 | 554 | Snapit Ampoule Opener | River Logic Pty Ltd | QLD |
| 5 | 554 | Tummy Shield | Tummy Shield Company Pty Ltd | NSW |
| 6 | 553 | Portable Retinal Camera | Vision Instruments | TAS |
| 7 | 552 | Prepaid – Call Credits NEVER Expire | Savvytel | NSW |
| 8 | 550 | Mediseus Temporal bone simulator | Medic Vision | VIC |
| 9 | 548 | Glow in the dark evacuation system | Skycore Group T/AS Allure Glow | VIC |
| 10 | 547 | cone-headTM | Cone-Head Technology | QLD |
| 11 | 544 | Reversed Rural Electrification | Barefoot Power | NSW |
| 12 | 544 | Sun Lizard Solar Climate Control System | Sun Lizard P/L | VIC |
| 13 | 539 | Yoober | Yoober | VIC |
| 14 | 537 | SimPAD(r) | Fred Bergman Healthcare Pty Ltd | VIC |
| 15 | 533 | Crust Heart Foundation Tick Approved Pizzas | Crust Gourmet Pizza Bars | VIC |
| 16 | 533 | ATM Raminator | Lockit.com.au | NSW |
| 17 | 533 | T-Line Safety System | Meridian Safety Pty Ltd | WA |
| 18 | 529 | waterless car washing and detailing | Ecowash Mobile | NSW |
| 19 | 528 | Tube Terminator® | CMA EcoCycle | VIC |
| 20 | 527 | Sweet Dreams | Tink Tank Pty Ltd | NSW |
| 21 | 527 | solar energy technology | Q Solar Pty Ltd | QLD |
| 22 | 527 | Renewable energy from organic wet waste streams | Quantum Bioenergy Limited | QLD |
| 23 | 525 | Stylyx Bicycle | Stylyx Limited | QLD |
| 24 | 525 | Australia’s first counselling portal | CounselLink.com.au | VIC |
| 25 | 520 | Stepwise | Lockstep Technologies | NSW |
| 26 | 520 | Switchselect.com | Switchselect Pty Ltd | QLD |
| 27 | 518 | MERINOfresh TM | Australian Wool Innovation | NSW |
| 28 | 518 | The BuzzBox | TheBuzz Corp Pty Ltd | WA |
| 29 | 515 | apartmentreviews.com.au | apartmentreviews.com.au | QLD |
| 30 | 513 | MillMapper | Scanalyse Pty Ltd | WA |
| 31 | 512 | Krinner Groundscrews | Krinner Groundscrews Qld | QLD |
| 32 | 510 | SomniLink-SPAP | Compumedics | VIC |
| 33 | 508 | Handheld Human/Animal Diagnostics at Point of Care | MycroLab Diagnostics | VIC |
| 34 | 507 | MonkeyBar | Monkey Steel Limited | NSW |
| 35 | 506 | Natural Sweetener For Foods and Beverages | BHW Solutions | NSW |
| 36 | 505 | GripSox | GripSox | VIC |
| 37 | 504 | Nirvana spectrometer | Integrated Spectronics | NSW |
| 38 | 504 | Coomercail Scale Aquaponic Food Production Systems | Aquaponic Solutions | VIC |
| 39 | 503 | Biofilter | Biofilter Technologies (R&D) Pty Ltd | NSW |
| 40 | 503 | Cursions 2008 | Cursions Pty Ltd | VIC |
| 41 | 501 | QlikView | Inside Info Pty Ltd | NSW |
| 42 | 496 | Quietwave® CMT | Acoustic Space P/L | NSW |
| 43 | 494 | Orbita Mouse | Cyber Sport Pty Ltd | NSW |
| 44 | 492 | Evado Clinical Trial Software | INVISION IT SYSTEMS | VIC |
| 45 | 492 | The Piccolo | Coates Pty Ltd | NSW |
| 46 | 492 | flaik | flaik | QLD |
| 47 | 489 | Sweax Underarm Liners | Oakrange Enterprises Pty Ltd – Sweax | WA |
| 48 | 488 | Halo Headphones | Softwear Pty Ltd | NSW |
| 49 | 487 | Pole Grippa | Tink Tank Pty Ltd | NSW |
| 50 | 486 | Sumo Sized Salads Made to Order | SumoSalad | NSW |
| 51 | 486 | APPLEBOX | APPLEBOX | VIC |
| 52 | 486 | Observant Remote Management System | Observant Pty Ltd | VIC |
| 53 | 485 | www.receiptkeeper.com.au | Receipt Keeper | VIC |
| 54 | 484 | VFX V-Machine | VFX Systems Pty Ltd | VIC |
| 55 | 477 | Perkler | Cubbyhole Pty Ltd (PERKLER) | ACT |
| 56 | 476 | alpine rice | native seeds | VIC |
| 57 | 475 | miRoamer | miRoamer | VIC |
| 58 | 474 | Weigh2go | Marks Design | VIC |
| 59 | 472 | Oxy-Hydrogen Fuel Supplementation | HOH Enterprises Pty Ltd | VIC |
| 60 | 470 | WOMOW.com.au – Word Of Mouth On the Web | WOMOW.com.au | VIC |
| 61 | 470 | Aggregation of All Information and Product in the Australian Community Sector | Our Community | VIC |
| 62 | 469 | One stop gear carrying system for kids | Boxy Design Pty Ltd | VIC |
| 63 | 467 | SKIN CANCER | RINGO P/L | NSW |
| 64 | 464 | GreenMobiles | M2 Telecommunications Group Ltd | VIC |
| 65 | 463 | Store Specials | Store Specials Holdings P/L | VIC |
| 66 | 463 | Yield Prophet | Birchip Cropping Group | VIC |
| 67 | 462 | Fiobuoy: submersible marine marker buoy & retrieval system | Fiomarine | TAS |
| 68 | 462 | Making people count | Budget Bitch Pty Ltd | NSW |
| 69 | 462 | Digital Shower Timer | Ripple Products Pty Ltd | VIC |
| 70 | 462 | Drug Discovery | Epichem Pty Ltd | WA |
| 71 | 461 | ClickBook.net | ClickBook.net | VIC |
| 72 | 460 | OurWishingWell.com | OurWishingWell.com | NSW |
| 73 | 460 | Sensor Network Analyzer (SNA) | Daintree Networks | VIC |
| 74 | 459 | ROBOTIC GRASS ADVERTISING | GrassAds Pty Ltd | QLD |
| 75 | 457 | High Pressure Double Swivel | H.I.Fraser Pty Ltd | NSW |
| 76 | 457 | SoftwareShortlist | Trigora Pty Ltd | VIC |
| 77 | 456 | Corporate Family Program | Expect A Star Education Services | NSW |
| 78 | 455 | mHITs – person to payments by SMS | mHITs | ACT |
| 79 | 454 | PassWindow | Ablar Pty Ltd | QLD |
| 80 | 452 | An innovative cost-per-lead advertising venue for celebrants | Celebrante Pty Ltd | NSW |
| 81 | 451 | Global Corporate Challenge | Global Corporate Challenge Pty Ltd | VIC |
| 82 | 450 | RedBubble.com | RedBubble | VIC |
| 83 | 450 | Laser Diode Controller | MOG Laboratories Pty Ltd (“MOGLabs”) | VIC |
| 84 | 450 | Rapid Consulting | reStrategy Consulting | NSW |
| 85 | 448 | Tagmotion video search | Tagmotion Pty Ltd | NSW |
| 86 | 448 | thewebconsole.com | Bloomtools | QLD |
| 87 | 447 | Aconex online collaboration system | Aconex | VIC |
| 88 | 444 | Avian Terrain Engine | Epiphany Games P/L | NSW |
| 89 | 443 | Montage Field & Works Management System | us – Utility Services | VIC |
| 90 | 443 | ExitReality | ExitReality | VIC |
| 91 | 442 | Vodafone Business One | Vodafone Australia Limited | NSW |
| 92 | 442 | spellr.us | spellr.us | NSW |
| 93 | 442 | 99designs.com | 99designs.com | VIC |
| 94 | 441 | Snapsil | Snapsil Corporation | QLD |
| 95 | 440 | ‘JobOffice’ – web based e-recruitment software | NGA.NET | VIC |
| 96 | 439 | Remunerate | Evanscorp Pty. Limited | NSW |
| 97 | 439 | PeopleInsite | PeopleInsite | NSW |
| 98 | 437 | www.kangaruni.com | Xpress Information | VIC |
| 99 | 435 | The Scarpar | SCARPAR | QLD |
| 100 | 434 | Loop11 | Loop11 | VIC |
| THE SMART 100 |
