2024 James Dyson Award‘s top 20 list has been announced. One person from this list will be announced as the international winner by Sir James Dyson on 13 November and will receive a £30,000 prize money for the development of their invention. This year’s top 20 inventions address the world’s top priorities.
- Improving medical devices and patient experience: Olivia Humphreys from Ireland made the Top 20 list with Athena, a portable post-chemotherapy scalp cooling device, after witnessing the impact chemotherapy-induced hair loss can have on a person in 2019 while her mother was undergoing treatment. Jonathan Fisher, the inventor of the shortlisted Peter project in England, invented the wearable biomedical device to improve the quality of life of his father, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease and has a stiffness in his walking.
- Increasing access to healthcare for everyone: A team of students from South Korea has invented the Oxynizer, an electricity-free oxygen generator aimed at helping developing countries. Austria’s shortlisted project, finGrip, has developed a catheter system adapted for users with low dexterity.
- Managing waste and pollution: In Australia, young inventor Sze Yek’s experiments with his sister’s unused primary school uniform turned into Sorbet, an acoustic panel made from shredded home textile waste. Invented by Shane Kyi Hla Win and Danial Sufiyan Bin Shaiful, the Airxeed Radiosonde is inspired by fallen maple seeds to make daily weather measurements by radiosonde more sustainable.
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Dyson made a statement on the subject
The 14 Dyson engineers who determined the award’s International Top 20 list work at Dyson R&D centers in the UK, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. Engineers have a wide range of expertise, from design and product innovation to electronics and sustainability Dyson Chief Design Engineer and 2024 James Dyson Award Jury President Rumyana Dancheva said: “I hope that this inspiring group of talented young inventors will continue to turn their ideas into commercially successful products, because every invention that makes the list has the potential to change our world and people’s lives for the better. Our James Dyson Award Top 20 list makes me excited for the future!”