1
00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,480
Speaker 1: The James Dyson Awards celebrate our best young inventors and

2
00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:05,600
Speaker 1: University of Candeby engineering student Mark Campbell's won it for

3
00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:09,240
Speaker 1: his adaptive glasses. Now, these are smart LCD lenses that

4
00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:13,960
Speaker 1: detect harmful light patterns instantly darken and that provides protection

5
00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,759
Speaker 1: for people with epilepsy and Marcus with Usmark morning to you.

6
00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:19,680
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for having me, not at all.

7
00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:21,279
Speaker 1: Does it work with migraines as well?

8
00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,840
Speaker 2: Yes, so it's designed for people with photo sensitive epilepsy

9
00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:27,080
Speaker 2: as well as photophobia.

10
00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,160
Speaker 1: Fantastic and it works. It works every time. It's bulletproof,

11
00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:30,840
Speaker 1: it's doable.

12
00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,800
Speaker 2: Yes, well, we're still in the early stages of developing

13
00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,720
Speaker 2: the prototypes. But I'm working to greig down on it

14
00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:41,720
Speaker 2: and it's I will develop it so that it's it's

15
00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:42,920
Speaker 2: as bulletproof as possible.

16
00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,159
Speaker 1: So what did you have to explain to the judges?

17
00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,760
Speaker 1: Is it the idea or is it the actual You know,

18
00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,240
Speaker 1: to what stage do you have to present judges a product?

19
00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,480
Speaker 2: So with the James Dyson Award you can submit ideas

20
00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,600
Speaker 2: and later products in the later stages. But I've developed

21
00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:04,080
Speaker 2: a prototype, So I submitted a prototype fat that was

22
00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:06,960
Speaker 2: developed so that it was actually functional.

23
00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:10,840
Speaker 1: Do they what do they look like currently and does

24
00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,039
Speaker 1: it mean they have to look that way forever or

25
00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,919
Speaker 1: could they be manufactured in a style of any glass

26
00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,319
Speaker 1: you want. It's the lens that's the key.

27
00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,679
Speaker 2: So it's currently in a three D printed produce three

28
00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,920
Speaker 2: D printed casing, so it's still in the pretty early stages,

29
00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,360
Speaker 2: so it's not the prettiest, but it was the main

30
00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:30,800
Speaker 2: goal with that prototype was just that still something that

31
00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:34,200
Speaker 2: was functional, so laid it down the line. It will

32
00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,680
Speaker 2: look at that pretty air with maybe injection molded parts,

33
00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:39,720
Speaker 2: but at the moment it's not the prettiest, but it

34
00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,000
Speaker 2: does do the tracks right.

35
00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:42,840
Speaker 1: How cutting edge is the.

36
00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:48,800
Speaker 2: Tech so current? There are currently no products that are

37
00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,440
Speaker 2: like this, so it's pretty new to this industry.

38
00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:53,840
Speaker 1: Well, and you got the idea then from where?

39
00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,720
Speaker 2: So I originally got the idea from automatic darkening welding

40
00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:03,080
Speaker 2: mask which are similar in the way that they protect

41
00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:06,760
Speaker 2: welders from blinding sparks, but I applied it to a

42
00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:10,880
Speaker 2: different industry and the area of photosensitive epilepsy and photophobia.

43
00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,959
Speaker 1: How much time, energy and money has gone into.

44
00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:19,160
Speaker 2: This a lot of times. So I've started this project

45
00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:21,680
Speaker 2: about a year and a half ago, and there's just

46
00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:24,639
Speaker 2: been a stitty stream of working to develop it, to

47
00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:28,400
Speaker 2: get it to the most to the most robust stage

48
00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:32,400
Speaker 2: that I'm at now where it can actively detect slashes

49
00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,600
Speaker 2: and safely darken.

50
00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:36,920
Speaker 1: Wow, have you got you got patents on it?

51
00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,360
Speaker 2: Yes? So before entering the James Dyson Award, I was

52
00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,280
Speaker 2: working to develop a provisional patient which has been filed now.

53
00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:48,880
Speaker 1: Brilliant. So this is scalable. Do you think commercially?

54
00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:54,120
Speaker 2: I think so the next steps that are kind of

55
00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:57,040
Speaker 2: just to develop the prototype and make it as robust

56
00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,320
Speaker 2: and unobtrusive as possible. But once that is and I

57
00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,880
Speaker 2: think there would be potential and to commercialize it.

58
00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:05,680
Speaker 1: And what's the time frame you reckon?

59
00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:13,160
Speaker 2: H It's hard to know. I think that once medical

60
00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:16,280
Speaker 2: testing is done and it's validated, I think it can

61
00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:18,679
Speaker 2: it might only be a year after then that it

62
00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:20,840
Speaker 2: could be starting to get into people's hands.

63
00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:22,359
Speaker 1: That's brilliant. When do you graduate?

64
00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,200
Speaker 2: I graduate in two years, so I am in my

65
00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:28,000
Speaker 2: first year of university.

66
00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:28,360
Speaker 1: And you'll do what?

67
00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,880
Speaker 2: So I'm currently doing a bachelor's of Product design, but

68
00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,480
Speaker 2: I am unsure as to what I will do after university.

69
00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,400
Speaker 1: I think you'll be okay, Mark, something tells me you'll

70
00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,320
Speaker 1: you'll go well, go on your make Congratulations on it,

71
00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,960
Speaker 1: well done, Mark Campbell, who's the James Dyson Award winner.

72
00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:53,240
Speaker 1: And God we found a really bright, astute, alert, successful

73
00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:58,280
Speaker 1: young New Zealander excellent. For more from The mic Asking Breakfast,

74
00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:01,760
Speaker 1: listen live to news talks be from six am weekdays,

75
00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,040
Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio