哈佛大学三名学生发明脑震荡筛查头戴设备：获戴森奖全球医疗类奖项与4万美元奖金
戴森（Dyson）11月4日宣布，哈佛大学学生 Cleo Pontone、Radhika Saran 与 Sophia DeVito 发明的 Rumble Rims 头戴设备获得2026年詹姆斯·戴森奖（James Dyson Award）全球医疗类奖项。这款低成本设备用红外眼动追踪在运动场边做客观脑震荡筛查，团队将获得4万美元奖金，用于加速技术开发。
脑震荡症状因人而异，且可能在72小时后才出现，场边判断长期依赖主观观察。Rumble Rims 在2至3分钟的测试中以红外摄像头测量运动员眼睛的跟随、注视与移动情况，把结果实时显示在移动端上，提示是否应将运动员撤下场并转交专业医疗评估。团队强调，该设备是筛查工具而非诊断设备，是否重返赛场仍由合格医疗人员决定。
这款设备还配有恢复期仪表板，可在一段时间内重复测试，形成客观记录，供运动员、家人与临床医生监测恢复进度。团队此前试过头盔、护齿与下巴托等多种原型，最终采用侧置红外摄像头加45度二向色镜的头戴设计，并计划用奖金制作更高保真度的原型、在学校与青少年体育项目中试点。
詹姆斯·戴森表示，头部受伤的后果常在多年后显现，而识别脑震荡需要专业设备与医院专业能力，筛查因此常常没有在应当做时完成；三名发明者找到把客观筛查带到场边的新办法，有望帮助防止困扰许多运动员的长期脑损伤。团队成员表示，这一认可让她们更有信心推进试点，把 Rumble Rims 放到每一个运动场边。哈佛大学设计工程硕士项目教师 Shuya Gong 说，三人通过快速原型与反复试验找到优雅的测试办法，同时坚持设备应当价格可负担、在场边和家中都易用。
詹姆斯·戴森奖是面向设计工程学生的国际竞赛，今年收到来自28个国家和地区的2,294件参赛作品，为历届最高。自2005年以来，该奖已支持全球400多项学生发明。
（来源：戴森）
Harvard Students Win James Dyson Award Global Medical Prize for Concussion-Screening Headset
Dyson announced on November 4 that Rumble Rims, a headset invented by Harvard University students Cleo Pontone, Radhika Saran and Sophia DeVito, has won the Global Medical category of the 2026 James Dyson Award. The low-cost device uses infrared eye-tracking to bring objective concussion screening to sports sidelines, and the team will receive $40,000 to accelerate development of the technology.
Concussion symptoms differ from person to person and may take up to 72 hours to appear, leaving sideline decisions heavily dependent on subjective judgment. During a two- to three-minute test, Rumble Rims uses infrared cameras to measure how an athlete's eyes follow, fixate and move, translating the measurements into real-time guidance on a mobile display to help inform whether the athlete should be removed from play and referred for professional medical assessment. The team stresses that the system is a screening tool, not a diagnostic device, and that return-to-play decisions remain under the direction of a qualified healthcare professional.
The system also includes a recovery dashboard that enables repeat testing over time, creating an objective record that athletes, families and clinicians can use to monitor progress. The team moved through prototypes involving helmets, mouthguards and chin rests before settling on a headset using side-mounted infrared cameras and 45-degree dichroic mirrors, and plans to use the award to build a higher-fidelity prototype and pilot the technology with schools and youth sports programs.
James Dyson said the consequences of head injuries are too often felt later in life, yet spotting concussion is complex and requires specialist equipment and hospital expertise, so screening is not always done when it should be; he said the three inventors had found a new way to bring objective screening to the sidelines, where critical decisions are made. The team said the award gives them an opportunity to progress toward pilots that could put Rumble Rims on every sideline. Shuya Gong, faculty of the Master's in Design Engineering program at Harvard, said the students found elegant ways to test ambitious ideas through rapid prototyping while holding to the conviction that the solution should be affordable and easy to use.
The James Dyson Award is an international design competition for the next generation of design engineers. This year it received 2,294 entries from emerging engineers across 28 countries and regions, the highest number in its history, and since 2005 it has supported more than 400 student inventions worldwide.
(Source: Dyson)
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图片来源：图：Rumble Rims 脑震荡筛查头戴设备。戴森（Dyson）官方发布图片，经 PR Newswire 发布。 / Photo: The Rumble Rims concussion-screening headset. Official Dyson image released via PR Newswire.
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