MAGNUS WHITTALL: I wanted to design a user-friendly tool for people who care just as much as how it looks as how it works.
Andy is a cordless drill with its own character. It needs to be able to drill holes, turn screws and put together self-assembly furniture, but not look out of place sitting on the bookshelf.
The Syton is a mobility aid that marries the function of an electric wheelchair with the look of a motorbike or buggy.
TOM MARMINC: Conventional wheelchair design has always been brutally functional. I wanted a new type of chair that not only gave people mobility and independence but also had flare and style and they could use it with enjoyment.
In Hunter’s own words: “I am 10 years old and I like to surf. My mother takes me to the beach and sits waiting for me. Sometimes I forget the time and stay out the back of the surf for too long. I can’t hear my mother calling to me or even if she whistles I can’t hear her. So with this invention she can communicate with me to let me know it is time to come out of the surf.”
In 1921 the 14-year-old Mormon had an idea while working on his father's Idaho farm. Mowing hay in rows, Philo realized an electron beam could scan a picture in horizontal lines, reproducing the image almost instantaneously. This would prove to be a critical breakthrough in Philo Farnsworth's invention of the television in 1927.
The adding machine was invented by a nineteen-year-old French boy named Blaise Pascal way back in the year 1642. Blaise made it to help his father in his work. The man was a clerk, and all day long he had to do a tremendous number of mathematical calculations. The boy’s invention consisted of a wooden box with sixteen dials on it. By turning the dials, one could do simple addition and subtraction very quickly.
