Innovation Nation
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| - | Duncan Green and Helen O'Driscoll with the collapsible, dishwasher-safe "Yukka Bin". The bin | + | Duncan Green and Helen O'Driscoll with the collapsible, dishwasher-safe "Yukka Bin". The bin went on sale at John Lewis stores for a few years afterwards. |
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Revision as of 18:57, 15 December 2016
Contents |
Host
Craig Doyle
Broadcast
BBC One, launch show 30 April 2003, series 12 November to 15 December 2003 (6 episodes)
Synopsis
A kind of Best Inventions... Goes Large. In the run-up to the series, the public were asked to send in their innovative product design ideas. Three were selected to feature in the programme proper, which was mostly a fly-on-the-wall series following the Clever Things through all the stages of getting from a paper design to a marketable product. At the end there was a live final in which the public (that's you) voted for their favourite product, which would receive a £10,000 development grant from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). The three products were a collapsible pedal-bin, leakproof swimming goggles and some kind of futuristic pen-type thing, probably a pen.
Champions
Duncan Green and Helen O'Driscoll with the collapsible, dishwasher-safe "Yukka Bin". The bin went on sale at John Lewis stores for a few years afterwards.
Web links
NESTA press release (via archive.org)
See also
Techno Games - another NESTA-sponsored competition.
