It doesn’t take a team of engineers to come up with new business ideas. A student from Glasgow’s student of art came up with a winning device for anti terrorism.
AN anti-terrorism device which could lessen the damage caused by car bombs has won a competition to find the country’s best new inventions.
Glasgow School of Art student Andrew McCalister picked up the plaudits for N-Capsulate, a product that can be clipped on to buildings to protect them from the effect of shrapnel and shockwaves from bombs.
It deploys like a giant airbag when a building is hit, releasing a net like material which captures shrapnel and can absorb the energy from the shockwaves a bomb creates.
The idea came to the 21-year-old after the attack on Glasgow Airport last year, and just days after winning the student category at the Biggart Baillie Innovation Awards, Andrew, from Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, has been approached to take his prototype to the next stage of development.
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UKpreneur.co.uk on March 9th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
I think we need more anti-terrorism ideas to come from entrepreneurs … it is very sad that there is a commercial requirement now in the world for terrorism but entrepreneurs needs to respond to a niche.
I am based in the UK and last week met up with 2 friends who i went to school with, they have setup a -terrorism’ cosnultancy advising business on all matters of protection, risk reduction and disaster recovery, their business is predominantly in London but it is amazing how much business they now have in Glasgow!