Welcome.

This is the website of the book of the same name - No.8 Re-Wired, published October 2014 by Penguin Books. No.8 Re-Wired celebrates the inventions and ingenuity of Kiwis, taking kiwi ingenuity to global success.

There are well over 200 inventions or innovations of note from NZ, and over time, this website will feature them all. From modern innovations like the Martin Jetpack, to some of the earliest innovations in our history, No.8 Re-Wired celebrates New Zealand's impact on the world.

Look for No.8 Re-Wired in all good book shops, or buy it online here, and you can also have a play with the amazing augmented reality, and please contact us if you would like to add any kiwi inventions or ask questions.

Invention of the day

To have the audacity to play with the very idea of time itself is surely an exercise of extreme hubris. Yet that’s what George Vernon Hudson (b. 1867, d. 1946) proposed to do in 1895 when he suggested… read more