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Do you have bright ideas? Ideas for inventions that change society or, at least, make life easier for somebody? Perhaps we all do sometimes, but we don’t often make the idea a reality. Recently, in Britain, there was a competition called British Designers for Tomorrow. The competition encouraged young people to carry out their bright ideas. There were two groups in the contest: Group One was for schoolchildren under 16; Group Two was for schoolchildren over 16. And there were eleven prize-winners altogether.

Neil Hunt, one of the prize-winners, was called “Sunshine Superman” by one newspaper...

Do you have bright ideas? Ideas for inventions that change society or, at least, make life easier for somebody? Perhaps we all do sometimes, but we don’t often make the idea a reality. Recently, in Britain, there was a competition called British Designers for Tomorrow. The competition encouraged young people to carry out their bright ideas. There were two groups in the contest: Group One was for schoolchildren under 16; Group Two was for schoolchildren over 16. And there were eleven prize-winners altogether.

Neil Hunt, one of the prize-winners, was called “Sunshine Superman” by one newspaper writing about his design. It’s important, when people study the weather, to be able to record sunshine accurately. We need to know how many hours of sunshine we have and how strong it is. Most sunshine recorders only record direct sunlight. Neil’s is more accurate and this is very important for research into ways of using solar power. With his prize of ￡100, Neil plans to carry on inventing.

You can do so much with animation. Look at Simon West’s idea for animated road signs. He uses pictures which appear to move as you go nearer to or farther from them. This isn’t a new idea. But it is new to use these pictures on road signs. “We found that people were more likely to see moving signs,” said Simon. So now, you can really see rocks falling, trains moving, horses galloping or a car falling over the edge of a cliff. Quite a warning!

The ideas in the competition were so inventive that we are surprised that British industry doesn’t ask more schoolchildren for suggestions. Perhaps this will be the start of “pupil power”!

你有什麼好主意嗎？改變社會或至少使某人的生活更輕鬆的發明創意？也許有時候我們都會做，但是我們通常不會將這個想法變為現實。最近，在英國舉行了一場名為“明天的英國設計師”的比賽。比賽鼓勵年輕人發揮他們的聰明才智。比賽分為兩個小組：第一小組是16歲以下的小學生；第二小組是16歲以下的小學生。第二組適合16歲以上的學童。共有11位獲獎者。

獲獎者之一的尼爾·亨特（Neil Hunt）被一家報紙撰寫關於他的設計的文章稱其為“陽光超人”。重要的是，當人們研究天氣時，能夠準確記錄陽光。我們需要知道我們有多少小時的日照以及日照強度。大多數陽光記錄器僅記錄陽光直射。尼爾（Neil）更準確，這對於研究使用太陽能的方式非常重要。尼爾計劃以100英鎊的獎金進行發明。

動畫可以做很多事情。看看西蒙·韋斯特（Simon West）製作動畫路標的想法。他使用的圖片似乎隨著您靠近或遠離而移動。這不是一個新主意。但是在路標上使用這些圖片是新的。西蒙說：“我們發現人們更容易看到移動的跡象。”因此，現在您可以真正看到岩石掉落，火車行駛，馬馳或汽車掉落在懸崖邊緣。相當真實！

比賽中的創意極富創造力，令我們驚訝的是，英國工業界並沒有要求更多的學童提出建議。也許這將是“學生時代”的開始！