And the winner of the 2009 James Dyson Award is...

Many thanks for Saxon Henry, the Chair Chick , for alerting me to this yesterday on Twitter.

James Dyson makes brilliant vacuum cleaners. He's additionally an inventor, commercial engineer, business designer, a Knight of The Most Noble Order of the Garter and a philanthropist.

Every year, The James Dyson Foundation holds a world wide competition for Industrial Design students. The grand prize is £10,000 award to the winner and an additional £10,000 goes to the school where he or she studies. This years' winner was a team effort by Yusef Muhammed and Paul Thomas and it's brilliant. watch this video:

Here's a brief description of their entry by the winners:

Each year more than 60,000 fires arise in UK dwellings, resulting in about 450 deaths and more than 11,000 accidents. Automist is an automated hearth suppression gadget. It is designed for the kitchen, wherein 60% of home fires originate. Automist utilises ?Water-mist? That is a demonstrated generation on ships and in factories. Water mist technology works well on each chip pan and electric fires. The novelty of Automist lies in its modular design because of this it is simple to retrofit. The stylish nozzle may be placed beneath any standard sink tap, and is designed to combination in together with your kitchen surroundings. In the occasion of afire, a wi-fi warmness detector triggers an below-sink pump. Heat detection is the most dependable form of fireplace detection and the cause is about on the enterprise-trendy. The pump then drives mains water through the precise nozzle unit which quickly fills the kitchen extent with fog, creating an inert surroundings of 30% water and suppressing the blaze.

Good job fellas.