Vacuum up waste and microplastics “with out disturbing marine life”. that is the promise of the “ underwater vacuum cleaner » who received on Sunday Lépine competitionwhich rewards the perfect innovations since 1901 in France. In keeping with its inventor Alan Mario D’Alfonso Peral, it’s “a patented underwater assortment expertise primarily based on a low stress vortex”, “with out steady suction, respectful of ecosystems”, he explains on LinkedIn.
Mr Turbino is “an ecological, linked and civic invention which makes it attainable to hoover up plastic waste and micro-waste with out disturbing marine life”, provides the Lépine competition in a press launch. This operation with no motor permits it for use “close to delicate areas equivalent to seagrass or rocks”, in keeping with its creator.
Electrical skis on wheels
As in earlier years, 250 inventions were presented during this 125th edition of the competition. The second prize was awarded to Antoine Massebeuf, founding father of Skwheel, “the first electric skis on wheels » which open “the way in which to the apply of this sport on all varieties of terrain”. This gadget “on the crossroads of sporting, leisure and journey makes use of” is made up of two unbiased modules, every with wheels and a motorization system.
Clément Mignani, Loïc Folgoas and Pascal Migeot de Baran received third prize with Securpost, a linked sensor which is put in within the mailbox and detects the deposit and withdrawal of mail or parcels. A notification is then despatched to the person and there may be additionally an choice to obtain a photograph of the content material. This invention “responds to frequent uncertainty linked to receiving mail, notably when supply notifications are unreliable,” in keeping with the creators
Since its first version in 1901, the celebrated prize, based by the Paris police chief Louis Lépine, has rewarded the inventors of the ballpoint pen, the garden mower, the potato masher and even the steam iron.
