The team briefing the media on how yaR works
The yaR visual aid
Run by the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson’s charitable trust, the James Dyson Award is an international design award that celebrates, encourages, and seeks to inspire the next generation of design engineers and to get young people excited about design engineering. In fact, our Editor-in-Chief, Vijay, was also part of the James Dyson Award’s judging panel back in 2020.
Despite being in different universities, the four boys came together to develop yaR, a small, wearable pendant taps on artificial intelligence (AI) to help the visually impaired understand their surroundings and navigate their environment.
As a team, the yaR boys ended up as the “National Runner-up, Singapore” in this