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(MENAFN – Khaleej Times) Carvey Ehren Maigue, a 27-year-old Filipino engineer from Mapua University in Manila, has become the first prize winner for ‘sustainability’ at the 2020 James Dyson Award.
He invented a fluorescent material made from fruit and vegetable waste that was used to harvest light that was converted into electricity. His innovative method, called Aureus, uses recycled crop debris that can adhere to the sides of buildings to collect invisible ultraviolet light from the sun.
The translucent material is moldable and durable and can also combat the problem of fruit and vegetable waste, which contributes to nearly half of the food wasted by households, according to a report by Mail Online.
The award was founded by British inventor and billionaire James Dyson and was instituted to celebrate, encourage and inspire the next generation of design engineers. It is open to current and recent design engineering students and is run by the James Dyson Foundation, Dyson’s charitable foundation, as part of its mission to excite young people about design engineering.
2020 marked a record year for the James Dyson Award, with the most entries ever submitted and the most cash prizes awarded to inventors. The international winner and, for the first time, the sustainability winner received £ 30,000 to help develop their inventions.
“I understood that even when it’s cloudy and rainy, UV light still reaches us … Winning the James Dyson Award is both a beginning and an end, it marked the end of years of doubting whether my idea would have global relevance,” said Maigue . by mail online.
Solar energy is one of the best alternatives to fossil energy sources. If humans use fossil fuels at the current rate, gas and oil supplies will be depleted by 2060, according to the report.
“As a farmer, I see great potential in Carvey’s technology to generate clean, renewable energy,” said Sir James Dyson, founder of his company.
The other winner was the developer of a home breast cancer screening device that delivers reliable results in minutes. Blue Box takes a urine sample and uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect the first signs of breast cancer in just 40 minutes with 95% accuracy.
The runner-up award went to a team of students from Imperial University and the Royal College of Art for their device that captures tire wear particles on a vehicle’s steering wheel that can be processed and reused in a variety of applications, creating a -loop system.
Another second winner was the Scope lens invented by Ishan Mishra, Holden Beggs, Zhen Le Cao, Fernando J. Pena Cantu, Alisha Bhanji from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Most camera lenses use physical movement to zoom without loss of image quality, which is considered a major problem for compact and mobile cameras. Scope technology is capable of changing optical power and without movement , uses voltage to do so, allowing lossless camera zoom.
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