The 'KwickScreen' in use By Kim Heinz Michael Korn, a former student at the Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing is the UK winner of the James Dyson Award, an international design competition run across 18 countries. He won the award and a prize of £1,000 for his product KwickScreen, a portable room divider, designed principally for use in hospitals to isolate infected patients, as well as give them more dignity and privacy. The screens enable hospitals to make more effective use of their accommodation as infected patients do not need to be moved into a private room. 'In hospitals, there is a huge opportunity to optimise bedstock use and overall productivity while also improving the patient care environment," says Korn. The 2m-high, flexible screens can be pulled out to anything up to 3.5m wide and retract into a compact vertical compartment. They use a technology, the RolaTube, invented with NASA for use in space. Korn now has exclusive rights to the use the technology for the production of screens and has a patent on the KwickScreen. James Dyson will announce the global winner on 8 November. The International James Dyson Award winner will receive £10,000 for the student or the team and further £10,000 for the winner's university department. All of this year's entries can be seen on the website here .