An ultrasound tool set designed to quickly measure the commercial worth of forests, has scooped the coveted ninth annual James Dyson Design Award at an award ceremony held in Auckland last night.

Tim Cox, a 22 old industrial designer from Christchurch, says his winning product design could revolutionise New Zealand’s forestry sector, which exports $3.2 billion of products annually.

The other two finalists were both Massey University design graduates – Hamilton’s Jamaine Fraser designed a hydration blanket to aid stranded whales, and Aucklander Dan McLaughlin, created Airaid, which can help people living with respiratory disease. It is a nebuliser which functions by using a foot pump that fills a chamber with air, the air is compressed and used to control the correct dose of medicine administered to a patient through an oxygen mask.

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