Dyson Final­ists Announced

Final­ists for the New Zea­l­and round of the Dyson Awards have been announced and you can check them out online.

Look­ing at the pop­ular­ity of the items online is always inter­est­ing exer­cise. As a point of interest, here are the three products that have proved most pop­u­lar with read­ers thus far:

Mul­ti­cul­tural din­ing exper­i­ence — Port­able hot pot com­bined with utensils, a "tab­letop cook­ing device with which a Chinese meal can be pre­pared and shared, and acts as the focus of the eat­ing and cook­ing exper­i­ence. (240 votes)Minotaur Fire Nozzle Sys­tem, a " water deliv­ery sys­tem that provides greater con­trol, func­tion­al­ity and com­fort to the user when extin­guish­ing fires irre­spect­ive of the dur­a­tion of oper­a­tion." (54 votes)

Blocks, a three-piece range of afford­able fur­niture con­sist­ing of a clothes rack, din­ing table and cof­fee table. (114 votes)

The win­ning entry will be unveiled at a cere­mony in Auck­land on 22 July. Selec­tion is based on product design ideas that are innov­at­ive and inspire solu­tions to every­day prob­lems. The James Dyson Award is open to final year ter­tiary stu­dents study­ing in the areas of design, tech­no­logy or engin­eer­ing, and to gradu­ates in these areas who are in their first three years of work. David Love­grove, the award’s head judge and mem­ber of the Design­ers Insti­tute, said all entries must reflect the Dyson philo­sophy; demon­strat­ing a com­mit­ment to intel­li­gent design thinking.

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