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Runners up:
Nah Yeah Buoy (Hannah Tilsley
and Chamonix Stuart, Victoria
University of Wellington)
Problem: Approximately 80% of
Surf Life Saving New Zealand’s
1,000 annual rescues are caused
by rip currents, and studies show
that drowning is the third highest
cause of accidental death in New
Zealand.
Solution: With most New
Zealander’s living close to the
beach, these designers wanted
to design a product that would
help detect a rip current to
warn beachgoers of the hidden
dangers to prevent drownings
and rescues due to rip currents.
The “Nah, Yeah Buoy” is an
adaptive system for water safety
designed to identify rip currents
near beaches, visualise their
locations and movements, and
provide interactive alerts and
warnings for lifeguards and water
users.
The Hygienic Belt Drive
for Food Conveyors
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12 October 2019
New Zealand design students go the extra
mile to win national James Dyson Award Inner-city delivery methods are often
plagued with poor handling and safety
issues leaving few safe alternatives to
the larger fossil-fuel delivery vehicles.
In New Zealand and across the globe,
there is a growing need for a better
solution:
• Traditional delivery vehicles cost
companies and consumers in a range of
ways – the fee has to cover road taxes,
petrol, parking permits and time, and
also lost productivity while sitting in
traffic and finding vacant loading zones.
The environmental impact is also well
documented with Governments around
the globe committing to a reduction in
carbon emissions, particularly in bigger
city centres.
• Over 60% of all online purchases
are delivered to customers living in
Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
1.8 million Kiwis made online purchases
that required delivery in 2018, and 44%
of those online shoppers purchased
more than once a month (The Full
Download Report, New Zealand Post
2019)
• New Zealand has seen an increase
of EV vehicle sales over the past few
years, signalling Kiwis’ commitment to
sustainable vehicle solutions (Motor
Industry Association statistics 2019)
New Zealand’s national James Dyson
Award winner, the Electric Cargo Trike
aims to address this problem. Six young
industrial design students have today
won the local edition of the prestigious
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James Dyson Award for their Electric
Cargo Trike, which aims to solve a
multitude of problems faced by New
Zealand cities including environmental
issues, efficient package delivery, and
safety for couriers.
With New Zealanders increasingly
dependent on delivery services for
parcels, particularly with an increase of
online shopping, the six-person team
wanted to create a safe, sustainable
option for those deliveries. Their
Electric Cargo Trike is significantly
different from any existing fully electric
cargo delivery vehicles with this
product’s design focusing on handling
and driver experience.
The young designers from Massey
University in Wellington identified
a gap in the market for sustainable
package delivery alternatives, in place
of the larger delivery vehicles that
are “incredibly inefficient” for small
packages in urban and suburban areas.
“The last few kilometres are the least
efficient in the delivery process, and
we wanted to create a safe vehicle that
addresses that problem and solves it,”
says Daniel.
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