Godlfish Walker and Floating Greenhouse among invertions for Dyson Award

James Roberts select in one of the 700 entries for the James Dyson award in 2014

The competition reward design and engineering students from 18 countries in Europe, Asia, Oceena and North America, awarding a cash prize to each national winner and a larger international prize-judged by Dyson himself to the individual or team who wins overall. Entry to the 11th annual James Dyson award closed earlier month after receiving submissions from more than 700 inventors worldwide.

The trio will have to sift through 80 strange and fascinating sulutions to everyday problems, including a carboard bed and mini kitchen bio-reactor for growing meat. Most entries are not consumer products, Dyson believes inventors have a duty to pursue such global solutions and it's true that dwinging raw material supplies, repidly rising energy costs, ageing populations and 

urban degradation will require new thinking entirely.

Dyson said already drawing attention among the British submission is a cheap, collapsible 

incubator created by James Roberts, this product design graduate of Lough-borough University. Designed by a team from the Royal College of Art and Imperial London, the material in the suit stains red in areas that undergo impact or a strain intense enough to denote injury, allowing the 

wearer to avoid further damage. British entrants have also submitted dozens of ecological and medical innovations, among them is a pressure-sensitive suit for athletes who lack physical sensation.

British designers will have beat some robust competition from abroad, however. Ruben Camerlynck of the University of Antwerp has submitted a disposable syringe designed to render obsolete the current techniques for "intradermal" vaccination, where the vaccine is administered into the skin rather than beneath it. 

This year's British jury comprises BBC journalist and engineer Steph McGovern; industrial 

designer Sir Kenneth Grange, whose work includes the InterCity 125 and the Royal Mail rural post box; and last year's UK winner Sam Etherington, who has been admitted into a UK engineering "hall of fame" for his multi-axis wave-power generator, beating Dyson in a public vote. The trio will have to sift through 80 strange and fascinating "solutions to everyday problems", including a cardboard bed and a mini kitchen bio-reactor for growing meat.