The James Dyson Award is open to university level students (or recent graduates) and rewards those who "design something that solves a problem".[1] The award is run by the James Dyson Foundation,
James Dyson’s charitable trust, as part of its mission to get young people involved in design engineering.
2010
Samuel Adeloju (Australia) for Longreach, water floating device for saving victims in water.[8][9][10]
2011
Edward Linacre (Australia) for Airdrop, extracts water from the air and delivers it directly to plant roots through a network of subterranean piping.[11][12][13][14][15]
2012 Dan Watson (
Royal College of Art, England) for SafetyNet, a new commercial fishing net to allow smaller and unwanted fish to escape.[16][17][18]
2013
University of Pennsylvania team (United States) for Titan Arm, a bionic arm. The arm was developed for the Cornell Cup USA 2013 competition where they won first place. Award: $45,000 + $16,000 to the university.[19][20][21]
2014 James Roberts (
Loughborough University, England) for MOM, a portable inflatable incubator. Award: $45,000 + $5,000 to the university.[22][23]
2016
Isis Shiffer (Pratt Institute, United States) for the EcoHelmet, a paper bicycle helmet.[25] Award: $45,000.[26]
2017 Michael Takla, Rotimi Bhavsar, Prateek Mathur (
McMaster University) for The sKan a device using thermal maps of the skin to detect melanomas.[27][28]
2021 Kelu Yu, Si Li and David Lee (
National University of Singapore) for HOPES, a device for pain-free, at-home eye pressure testing, opening up access to glaucoma testing. Joseph Bentley (
Loughborough University, England) for REACT, a technology that stems bleeding to help save stabbing victims’ lives. Jerry de Vos (
Delft University of Technology) for Plastic Scanner, a low-cost, handheld device to identify plastic for recycling.[35][36]
The James Dyson Award is open to university level students (or recent graduates) and rewards those who "design something that solves a problem".[1] The award is run by the James Dyson Foundation,
James Dyson’s charitable trust, as part of its mission to get young people involved in design engineering.
2010
Samuel Adeloju (Australia) for Longreach, water floating device for saving victims in water.[8][9][10]
2011
Edward Linacre (Australia) for Airdrop, extracts water from the air and delivers it directly to plant roots through a network of subterranean piping.[11][12][13][14][15]
2012 Dan Watson (
Royal College of Art, England) for SafetyNet, a new commercial fishing net to allow smaller and unwanted fish to escape.[16][17][18]
2013
University of Pennsylvania team (United States) for Titan Arm, a bionic arm. The arm was developed for the Cornell Cup USA 2013 competition where they won first place. Award: $45,000 + $16,000 to the university.[19][20][21]
2014 James Roberts (
Loughborough University, England) for MOM, a portable inflatable incubator. Award: $45,000 + $5,000 to the university.[22][23]
2016
Isis Shiffer (Pratt Institute, United States) for the EcoHelmet, a paper bicycle helmet.[25] Award: $45,000.[26]
2017 Michael Takla, Rotimi Bhavsar, Prateek Mathur (
McMaster University) for The sKan a device using thermal maps of the skin to detect melanomas.[27][28]
2021 Kelu Yu, Si Li and David Lee (
National University of Singapore) for HOPES, a device for pain-free, at-home eye pressure testing, opening up access to glaucoma testing. Joseph Bentley (
Loughborough University, England) for REACT, a technology that stems bleeding to help save stabbing victims’ lives. Jerry de Vos (
Delft University of Technology) for Plastic Scanner, a low-cost, handheld device to identify plastic for recycling.[35][36]