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Mark Campbell: James Dyson Award Winner on his Lensare glasses for epilepsy and photophobia

Mark Campbell: James Dyson Award Winner on his Lensare glasses for epilepsy and photophobia

Update: 2025-09-10
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A young inventor has taken home the top honours at the James Dyson Awards for a pair of glasses made to tackle epilepsy.  

University of Canterbury engineering student Mark Campbell has developed ‘Lensare’, which uses smart LCD lenses that detect harmful light patterns and instantly darken, providing protection for people with epilepsy and photophobia. 

Campbell told Mike Hosking it’s still in the early stages of development, but the aim is to make it as bulletproof as possible. 

He says the next steps are to make the prototype as robust and unobtrusive as possible, but after that there’s the potential to commercialise it. 

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Mark Campbell: James Dyson Award Winner on his Lensare glasses for epilepsy and photophobia

Mark Campbell: James Dyson Award Winner on his Lensare glasses for epilepsy and photophobia

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