The 2015 James Dyson award has opened for entries. The international design award, which runs in 20 countries, has a total prize fund in excess of €100,000.
Ireland has had an impressive performance in the James Dyson awards since they launched 11 years ago with the first ever winner now a senior engineer at Dyson (Patrick Moloney, Carlow IT, inventor of a lightweight cast for broken limbs). Meanwhile the 2009 winner, Noel Joyce, also from Carlow IT (inventor of the hydraulic wheelchair braking system) recently made his first €1 million through sales of a touchpad pen invention – Maglus.
The contest is open to university level students (and recent graduates) studying product design, industrial design and engineering.
James Dyson said: “Young people have the power to change the world through engineering. Each year the James Dyson Award sees truly remarkable solutions to real-life problems all approached from different angles. No problem is too big and the simplest solutions are the best – use the award as a stepping stone to take your invention towards commercialisation.”
Last year’s international winner was James Roberts (pictured), a 23-year-old graduate of Loughborough University, UK. His winning invention was Mom, an inflatable incubator for the developing world. It provides the same performance as a £30,000 modern incubation system, but costs just £250 to manufacture, test and transport. James has now gone on to further prototype and test his invention.
Nutria, a new feeding system for patients who cannot ingest food normally was last year’s Irish winner. Designed by 22 year old University of Limerick student, Darren Lehane, the invention was inspired by his baby niece, Danielle who could not feed normally and had to use a feeding tube shortly after her birth.
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