Rhythmijig, intellibin and Deli'tail among clever gadgets seen at Cambridge design show

It transpires that the Ergopip is just one of a selection of great designs to emerge from the University of Cambridge this month. Manufacturing engineering students there held a design show to introduce their work, and packed it with amazing gadgets.

My three favorites are the PR-Radio, designed from the ground-up to augment the honorable and virtuous work of public relations specialists; the Rhythmijig, an aid for deaf musicians and kids that "transmits a live beat as a tactile stimulus" to anyone who wants to hear something that otherwise could not be heard; and a machine that can French-plait a human's hair without delaminating the subject's dermal layers.

Check out the rest at the engineering department's news page.