TODAY is Innovations Day, dedicated to recognising creativity and encouraging people to imagine new and inventive ways to improve things.
In an age of gadgets, gizmos and electronics, it’s easy to forget that there’s still incredible progress being made in technological innovation.
Scotland has been right at the heart of scientific discoveries and we take enormous pride in our history of great inventions, such as the telephone, television, and penicillin.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg – in fact Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone also designed a detector of icebergs.
Scots have also created a number of rather strange and surprising inventions over the centuries.
For example, did you know that a Scot devised the game of basketball? Or had a hand in the US Declaration of Independence?
You can find out more about these amazing and surprising inventions with our gallery above.
Check out our gallery of reasons why Scotland is awesome below.
And then you can test your knowledge with our "Scottish" or "Not Scottish" quiz.