Young British Inventor
Creates Inflatable Baby
Incubator
A UK college student’s invention of an inflatable
incubator for prematurely-born babies has been
picked as the international winner of this year’s
James Dyson Award.
The prototype incubator, called MOM, costs
just a fraction of the price to make than
commonly-used alternatives. and the project’s
inventor – Loughborough University graduate
James Roberts – said he hoped the final
product would be used in the developing world.
Mr Roberts said that he had begun work on
MOM as part of a final year project inspired by
a TV documentary that showed how Syrian
refugees lost loads of premature kids to the
stresses of war and the lack of incubators and
infrastructure to support them.
He said that the £30,000 award meant that he
could continue work on the machine, which he
now hopes to bring to market by 2017.
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