The best student inventions of 2024, selected by the James Dyson Award
Today, the James Dyson Award celebrates the best inventions of 2024 by young engineers and designers around the world, as the competition’s Top 20 shortlist is unveiled.
This year, the global shortlist of 20 pioneering inventions includes two Singapore entries, each having the chance to become a global winner and receive S$50,500 to support the next stages of their inventions.
This year’s 20 best inventions tackle the world’s most pressing problems
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Improving medical devices and patient experience:
Luke Goh, National University of Singapore graduate and Singapore National Winner of the James Dyson Award, developed Mammosense to increase the participation rate of breast cancer screenings. Mammosense is a first-of-its-kind tool that analyses individuals’ breasts to determine the optimal compression force required during screenings, for greater patient comfort. The invention is able to reduce reported pain experienced during a mammogram by 25%, and he hopes that this will encourage more individuals to go for this life-saving procedure.
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Managing waste and pollution:
airXeed Radiosonde, created by Shane Kyi Hla Win and Danial Sufiyan Bin Shaiful in Singapore, takes inspiration from falling maple seeds to make daily weather measurements by radiosonde more sustainable. In Australia, young inventor Sze Yek’s experiments with her sister’s unused primary school uniform developed into Sorbet, an acoustic panel made from shredded household textile waste.
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The 14 Dyson engineers who selected the Award’s Global Top 20 shortlist work across Dyson R&D hubs in the UK, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. They bring a wide variety of expertise ranging from design and product innovation, to electronics and sustainability.
“I really hope that this inspiring group of talented, young inventors will continue to develop their ideas to commercially successful products, as every shortlisted entry has clear potential to change our world and people’s lives for the better – our James Dyson Award Top 20 shortlist makes me excited for the future!”
Rumyana Dancheva, Lead Design Engineer at Dyson and Chair of the James Dyson Award 2024
Read more about the 2024 Global Top 20 here and stay tuned for 13 November 2024 when Sir James Dyson will announce the global winners of the James Dyson Award.