The James Dyson Award competition rewards young designers who come up with next generation concepts and designs. PSFK looks at the top three winners of this year’s competition:

Winner: LONGREACH Buoyancy Deployment System

This buoyancy bazooka was designed by industrial design student Samuel Adeloju and allows for the rapid shooting of an emergency buoyancy aid to a drowning victim up to 500 feet away in the water, thus enabling him to remain afloat for a longer time, while actual rescue operations are prepared.

1st Runner Up: SeaKettle

Kimberley Hoffman’s SeaKettle is an emergency life raft that incorporates a desalination device to provide safe drinking water to those who are stranded at sea and prevents them from getting dehydrated.

2nd Runner Up: Reax

Designed by Lars Imhof and Marc Binder of the University of Applied Sciences Switzerland, Reax is a CPR device that compresses a patient’s chest at regular intervals and forces blood into the brain more efficiently, allowing the paramedics to perform more life-saving tasks on the patient.

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