The James Dyson Prize, an annual engineering competitors with a sustainability focus run by Dyson’s charity, is now open and accepting submissions from younger inventors who’ve concepts to enhance our planet.
Since 2005, the award has challenged enterprising school college students and up to date engineering graduates to deal with a worldwide downside, from environmental points to bettering healthcare practices. Earlier winners have developed options to advance plastic recycling (Plastic Scanner) and biodegradability of supplies (MarinaTex, AuREUS), in addition to to enhance dwelling medical diagnostics (Blue Field, HOPES).
To this point, the competitors has awarded prize cash to 390 innovations, and greater than 70% of previous international winners are commercializing their profitable innovations. We’d like extra progressive concepts to deal with international medical and environmental issues, and James Dyson believes that younger individuals have the solutions and the drive to make a distinction.
Sir James Dyson, founder, mentioned: “We’re on the lookout for younger engineers who’re prepared to unravel issues in sustainable methods, usually utilizing much less vitality and fewer supplies, and who need to enhance the world by means of their concepts. Younger individuals have the concepts that may change issues for the higher, and they need to be inspired. The James Dyson Award provides them the platform to proceed their innovations, and I sit up for judging this 12 months’s entries. Good luck!”.
Sir James Dyson chooses the worldwide winners of the competitors; obtain important funding and high-profile recognition – key first steps in turning your concepts into sensible, real-life utility.
What can the winners anticipate?
1. Prize cash. International winners obtain PHP2M and nationwide winners obtain PHP330k to advance to the subsequent section of their invention’s growth.
2. Media consideration. Previous winners have highlighted the attention generated by the Award as one of the crucial priceless contributions to getting their concepts off the bottom.
3. Help for the earlier winner. Final 12 months, the award launched a community for previous winners to market their innovations; networking occasions and alternatives for winners to attach, share experiences and contemplate mentoring between winners.
Every collaborating nation and area will award one nationwide winner (PHP330k) and two nationwide runners-up. Nationwide winners are chosen by an exterior panel in collaboration with Dyson. Final 12 months, the Prize opened for the primary time in Thailand and Turkey, and this 12 months the competitors launches in Portugal.
Those that win a nationwide award transfer on to the shortlist and worldwide awards levels, the place James Dyson selects his international winners.
What makes a very good entry?
The perfect innovations resolve an actual world downside affecting our planet. They supply clear and clever options. A earlier profitable winner within the Philippines was the primary winner of the International Sustainability Award in 2020: the AuREUS system know-how, invented by then-27-year-old Filipino Carvey Ehren. AuREUS window panels use know-how synthesized from recycled crop waste to soak up UV mild misplaced from daylight and convert it into clear renewable vitality.
Not like conventional photo voltaic panels, which solely work in clear situations and depend on seen mild, AuREUS panels can get energy from invisible UV rays passing by means of clouds. By way of the recycling of crops that will in any other case be thought of waste, AuREUS promotes higher entry to photo voltaic vitality for local weather change mitigation and helps the native agricultural business when affected by calamities.
Success tales
Successful the James Dyson Award can increase consciousness that helps push problem-solving concepts in direction of commercialization. For instance, mOm Incubators, a 2014 Worldwide Winner, has just lately equipped over 60 of its incubators to the Ukraine and a couple of different international locations together with the UK. General, the corporate believes it has made an impression on the lives of greater than 1,000 infants, and as they put it, “we would not have gotten to this place with out the James Dyson Award.”
John Tay, inventor of Rehabit, was the 2022 Singapore Nationwide Winner. Impressed by the struggles his father confronted because of the lack of correct at-home rehabilitation instruments for these affected by stroke, he created a set of 4 targeted instruments within the rehabilitation of the higher extremities. The instruments enable sufferers to carry out workout routines accurately and safely. At the moment, Rehabit is already in use at a number of remedy facilities and John is now working to increase the vary of merchandise for stroke sufferers to relearn, get well and get well. “Because the award, a number of therapists have approached me for collaborative alternatives. This has actually been an incredible publicity for Rehabit,” says John.
Dan Watson, inventor of SafetyNet Applied sciences, was the 2012 Worldwide Winner. SafetyNet is a snap-on fishing rig mild to fight undesirable fish and marine creatures caught in business fishing nets. He based his firm SafetyNet Applied sciences after profitable the award, offering pioneering know-how and help to construct a greater, sustainable fishing business. Along with high-quality LED lights, SafetyNet Applied sciences additionally supplies underwater video cameras and ocean sensors to help the fishing business. “SafetyNet is now international, we work all around the world. We’re beginning to be leaders within the fishing business,” says Dan.
In 2016, US Nationwide Runner-up SoaPen, a colourful kids’s cleaning soap pen that encourages protected handwashing, commercialized his invention and was featured on Shark Tank. SoaPen has shipped over 60,000 SoaPen items throughout the US and is increasing its product portfolio with new SoaPen colours and a physique wash pen.
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James Dyson Award call for entries • Gadgets Magazine
