HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach Newswire - 13 November 2024 - Today, the James Dyson Award unveils its two global winners, each receiving £30,000 for solving significant problems of global importance in medicine and sustainability: JDA2024 Global Winners Final Athena is the global Medical Winner. Invented by 24-year-old designer Olivia Humphreys (Ireland) after she witnessed her mother's painful battle with cancer, Athena is an affordable – and portable – device for chemotherapy patients that uses scalp cooling to prevent hair-loss. It is 1⁄20 of the price of existing technology, and can be used outside hospital, reducing the time patients are forced to spend on wards.
airXeed Radiosonde is the global Sustainability Winner. Invented by postdoctoral researchers Shane Kyi Hla Win and Danial Sufiyan Bin Shaiful (Singapore), airXeed is a reusable, nature-inspired sensor for weather forecasting. Unlike current weather balloons, it does not create tonnes of plastic and electronics waste, and intelligently descends like a maple seed to avoid aircraft collisions and land in designated collection zones.
The international student design competition, which has now supported more than 400 problem-solving inventions from young engineers and scientists worldwide, received nearly 2,000 entries this year. Speaking of the 2024 winners, James Dyson said: "We started the James Dyson Award nearly 20 years ago to encourage students at university to solve problems. And we've had thousands an.