Dyson has released the 20 strong shortlist for this year’s James Dyson Award, but we’ve sifted through the inventions, and have brought you our top five picks of the best entries on the James Dyson Award shortlist, to bring you the most bizarre, useful and downright ingenious creations.
Electrostatic Noticeboard The Electrostatic Noticeboard is just one of a clutch of entries from the UK that have made it onto the James Dyson Award shortlist. It does away with the need for pins and magnets, using the same bit of physics that sticks your hair up when you rub a balloon onto it, apart from this Dyson shortlisted invention only requires you to rub notes and papers on its surface to make it stick, not your own head.
USVP Stinky footed folk rejoice – this James Dyson Award shortlisted invention may look like a SoccerSports drawstring bag, but it hides some nifty tech that uses UV lights to kill the bacteria, and with it, the whiff, from your shoes. It’s powered by a rechargeable battery, which attaches to two arms that slip inside your shoes, and are clicked on after zipping up the bag.
Move-It Move-it turns a bulky box into a convenient trolley. It’s made completely from cardboard, and can be fitted in under a minute to any box you’d like to wheel along. It’s a brilliant invention for those of us without cars, and could what you spend on home delivery, plus make getting a new telly (or Dyson machine?) home a lot easier.
Wanderest Seat The Wanderest Seat is a flip down seat that attaches to lamposts, for a comfy sit down wherever civilisation exists. We can think of thousands of instances where the Wanderest Seat would be a godsend, not leats for an ageing population struggling with mobility, but also in more frivolous and lazy instances. All those bored people waiting for spouses and partners outside clothes shops/the Apple store can now pull up a chair!
The Copenhagen Wheel The Dyson Award isn’t the first outing for the Copenhagen Wheel, which was announced back in December last year. It stores energy in a back wheel you can retrofit to your bike in a few minutes flat. The energy it collects from your braking is then recycled and gives you an extra push in your pedal torque when you’re on an uphill climb.
Who’s your money on for the James Dyson Award? Is there anything shortlisted that stands out to you, for being particularly ingenious, or groundbreaking? We want to hear what you think!
Dyson has released the 20 strong shortlist for this year’s James Dyson Award, but we’ve sifted through the inventions, and have brought you our top five picks of the best entries on the James Dyson Award shortlist, to bring you the most bizarre, useful and downright ingenious creations.
