A prototype inflatable incubator for prematurely-born babies has been picked as the international winner of this year’s James Dyson Award.
Mom costs a fraction of the price to make than commonly-used alternatives.
The project’s inventor – Loughborough University graduate James Roberts – said he hoped the final product would be used in the developing world.
One expert said it should be a good stand-in so long as the babies using it were not too premature.
Mr Roberts said that he had begun work on Mom as part of a final year project inspired by a TV documentary.
“I was watching a Panorama programme on BBC about Syrian refugees, and they had a segment about how there are loads of premature kids dying because of the stresses of war and specifically the lack of incubators out there and the infrastructure to support them,” he recalled.
“I thought there has to be a way to solve that.”
via BBC News
