Bruise suit shows para-athletes where they are injured
A group of Royal College of Art students has developed a suit that enables athletes with sensation loss to instantly detect and assess the severity of sporting injuries. More
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"Low-cost" inflatable baby incubator could help slash number of neonatal fatalities
News: Loughborough University graduate James Roberts has won this year's James Dyson Award for a baby incubator that costs a fraction of the price of current technologies and "could save thousands of lives" in developing countries. More
Ken Nakagaki's Comppass draws simple shapes from digital files
Design student Ken Nakagaki has adapted a traditional stationery implement to work with Computer Aided Design (CAD) software, creating a tool that enables users to replicate digital files on paper (+ movie). More
Biodegradable fishing nets could prevent sea mammal deaths
Engineering student Alejandro Plasencia has created biodegradable fishing nets and tracking tags for fishermen to help stop aquatic mammals getting trapped in lost trawling equipment (+ movie). More
Jack Albert Trew designs bicycle-powered centrifuge to enable blood testing in rural Africa
This low-cost centrifugal device by British designer Jack Albert Trew fits onto the wheel of a bicycle, providing a simple blood diagnosis for patients in remote parts of Africa (+ slideshow). More
Uflex bandage snaps around a wound and inflates to stop bleeding
A pair of French product designers have created an inflatable bandage that snaps around the wrist like a slap bracelet so it can be self-administered with only one hand. More
Miito by Nils Chudy is an energy-saving alternative to the kettle
Dutch Design Week 2014: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Nils Chudy has devised a way to heat liquid in a cup, eliminating the wasted energy associated with boiling excess water in a kettle (+ movie). More
"Bio-reactive" expiry marks for food win UK James Dyson Award 2014
News: Solveiga Pakstaite, an industrial design student from Brunel University, has won the UK James Dyson award with Bump Mark – an expiry label that decays to tell you when food is no longer safe to eat (+ slideshow). More