invention

Inventing a machine that allows cows to milk themselves? Funding a Europe-wide business venture with the sale of a litter of puppies? It could only be Yorkshire’s Tim Gibson, a local farmer with a global business.

Amanda Jones and James Brown are the co-founders of Red Button Design, an award winning design house developing products for the Aid and Humanitarian markets.

Being told off by his mother for forgetting to bring the washing in before it rained was the incentive for Roger Hind to develop the Rotamate two years ago.

Whilst studying Product Design James Dunlop, 23, came up with the idea for MyHab, an eco friendly two-person habitat made from recycled cardboard and plastic.

Fed up with missing deliveries? Tired of waiting in all day for a parcel? Eddie Riby has invented the answer: Parcel Safe.

Tony Higson designed the Highson after becoming increasingly annoyed at how creased his clothes were getting while cycling to work.

Jay Cousins designed the Orikaso range of lightweight, folding cups and plates whilst at university and has since turned the idea into a business that retails in 30 countries worldwide.

James Tuthill’s graduation concept of the eglu led to him and three friends from the Royal College of Art in London, Johannes Paul, Simon Nicholls and William Windham, all in their mid-twenties, to form Omlet in 2004.

Tanya had never thought of herself as an engineer, but an assignment on her A-Level course in product design led to the HypoHoist and opened up an exciting career path for her.

Philip Robinson is the inventor of the ZorinPump which integrates a bicycle seat and a powerful floor pump which combines track performance with hand pump mobility.