Entreprising students seek backing
TWO enterprising Lancaster University students are seeking funds to help them develop inventions.
With help from the university and the student union, the students have created prototypes of an asthma inhaler and refillable-juice bottle top.
Kitson Broadhurst, who is studying an M Eng in Engineering, created a smaller version of the widely-used device used to treat asthma.
He has also personalised the inhaler, developing designs based on TV characters for children and with plans for branded inhalers for teenagers, which they aim to sell on the high street and online.
He said: “I’m an engineer so I like to tinker and improve things and I wanted to remove some of the stigma of having an inhaler. I’ve had asthma all my life but for someone my age, I thought it would be better smaller and without a protruding corner so the inhaler fits in your pocket better.”
Undergraduate Entrepreneurship student Zac Garton has invented a bottle top which contains a changeable capsule which flavours water.
Joe Buglass of Lancaster University Students Union Involve, which provides support to student entrepreneurs, said: “Both of them have the tenacity, the ideas and the drive to make things happen and we already have companies in the UK who are interested in helping them.”
